Nicole Acevedo is a reporter for NBC Latino.
Asking Latinos about their “street race,” or how they're perceived racially by strangers based on their physical appearance, could help improve how the government collects data about race and ethnicity, according to a new report from the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. The ways in which federal government agencies, such as the U.S.
“I want to make clear that ‘street race’ is not just skin color,” Lopez said, adding that Latinos who may have facial features that resemble those of East Asian people may have a lighter skin color and still be “subjected to Asian hate based on what they look like.” Lopez said the same is true about Latinos who are categorized as Black and subjected to anti-Blackness. The U.S.
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