The OMB removal of Blackness from Latindad is also evident in its refusal to include Latin American nations as examples of Black-origin populations on the census form. OMB Black origin nation examples are limited to Nigeria, Ethiopia, Somalia, Ghana, Congo, Haiti and the multiracial nations of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Explicitly excluding Latin American regional examples effectively means that Afro-Latinos with origins in for example Colombia, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, are all excluded from the invitation to select Black.

Afro-Latino scholars provided the federal government a detailed statistical methodology for retaining some of the important distinction between race and ethnicity. Allow our contributions to be your blueprint.

We believe that the proposed changes in coding will have a significant negative impact on the accuracy and utility of the American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, 2030 Census data, among other federal data sets. We urge the Census Bureau to carefully consider these concerns and work with scholars and community stakeholders to develop a data collection and tabulation methodology that accurately reflects the diverse racial and ethnic identities and social statuses of all people living in the United States.