Multiracial Latinos In Society

“The Challenges that face Multiracial Latinos in Society”

In a nation that boasts such a diverse and colorful population , it is surprising how quick it’s mono racial inhabitants and government are to discriminate and build walls between themselves and their mixed race counterparts. In light of the mixed race Latino, they are one of the major unaccepted groups known to Man. Basically they carry around the image of being partly involved with the Hispanic stigmatized minority group which therefore later insinuates struggles down the road with personal identification development. In such a long run of years various governments and powerful , elite heads of large corporations have aimed their concerns at keeping the
“The categorical option to choose more than one racial group is often not officially available when registering for school or healthcare or applying for admission or employment. Instead, mixed-race individuals are often forced to “choose one” racial or ethnic identity (Hall, 1992).”Basically what is being stated here is that for a substantial amount of years the mixed race identity has gone unknown on the U.S. census only allowing multiracial individuals to represent themselves as a mono racial category or other therefore confusing the multiracial individual as to why there is no checkbox to fully represent his/herself. Mixed race Hispanics have even bigger struggles to take into consideration due to the fact that one part of them is considered an ethnicity and the other a race . When it all comes down to it there is no proper classification for the person, they have to subject themselves to one category or the other. Even with the 2010 census that allowed multiracial individuals the chance of identifying themselves as two or more racial categories , it still posed the challenge of including the Latino ethnicity in there as well, which obviously wasn’t possible. “In the last decennial census where many additional racial and ethnic categories were allowed, almost 10 million people of Hispanic origin classified themselves as "Other" race.(Hall,1992).” The confusing structure of how the census is written out makes
Basically multiracial individuals are feared because our mere existence often calls into question the status quo and the way that race is constructed in our society. They need our numbers to supply health care and federal education even if it means compromising our own true identities. However, the reasoning for multiracial reporting to be available is for these reasons “ the current system forces children and adults to deny the racial heritage of one parent, The providing of a multiracial category increases the accuracy of racial reporting and lastly the current system does not capture the racial diversity of the population.(Talerico,2001)”. All those points are completely valid and furthermore exhibits how society hasn’t taken a proper leap in showing these individuals for what and who they really