On The Census, Who Checks 'Hispanic,' Who Checks 'White,' And Why : Code Switch : NPR

On The Census, Who Checks 'Hispanic,' Who Checks 'White,' And Why : Code Switch : NPR: We've been talking a lot lately about how who fills out the Census in what way. It's an ongoing preoccupation of Code Switch, and one shared by Julie Dowling. Dowling, a University of Illinois sociologist, whose book, Mexican Americans and the Question of Race, came out earlier this year. (As the daughter of a Mexican-American mother and Irish-American father, Dowling knows all about the complexities of filling out the race question on the Census form.)

I interviewed Dowling about her research, and she shared some fascinating insights about the gap between how people fill in Census forms and how they think of themselves