The new census proposal may likely undercount Black people by ignoring Afro-Latinos. We can’t let that happen.

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The new census proposal may likely undercount Black people by ignoring Afro-Latinos. We can’t let that happen.

OPINION: The changes would conflate ethnicity with race, which risks obscuring the number of Afro-Latinos and the monitoring of socio-economic status differences of Latinos across races.

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