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发帖数: 5443 | 2 If approved, a new "MENA" box could be added to 2020 census forms. | f***e
发帖数: 5443 | 3 Hassan Jaber, a member of a census advisory board on racial and ethnic
populations from Dearborn, Mich. Arab-Americans seeking to be counted by the
Census are making progress on the policy front but still face political and
public obstacles. A proposed Middle Eastern or North African category on
the 2020 Census is expected to be tested nationally later this year and the
bureau is currently inviting comments on the collection of this and other
information.(Photo: Paul Sancya, AP)
WASHINGTON — The White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new
racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what
would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in decades.
If approved, the new designation could appear on census forms in 2020 and
could have far-reaching implications for racial identity, anti-
discrimination laws and health research.
Under current law, people from the Middle East are considered white, the
legacy of century-old court rulings in which Syrian Americans argued that
they should not be considered Asian — because that designation would deny
them citizenship under the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. But scholars and
community leaders say more and more people with their roots in the Middle
East find themselves caught between white, black and Asian classifications
that don't fully reflect their identities.
"What it does is it helps these communities feel less invisible," said Helen
Samhan of the Arab American Institute, which has been advocating the change
for more than 30 years. "It’s a good step, a positive step."
On Friday, the White House Office of Management and Budget advanced the
proposal with a notice in the Federal Register, seeking comments on whether
to add Middle Eastern and North African as a separate racial or ethnic
category, which groups would be included, and what it should be called.
Under the proposal, the new Middle East and North African designation — or
MENA, as it's called by population scholars — is broader in concept than
Arab (an ethnicity) or Muslim (a religion). It would include anyone from a
region of the world stretching from Morocco to Iran, and including Syrian
and Coptic Christians, Israeli Jews and other religious minorities.
But the Census Bureau, which has been quietly studying the issue for two
years, also has gotten caught up in debates about some groups — such as
Turkish, Sudanese and Somali Americans — who aren't included in that
category. Those are issues the White House is trying to resolve before
adding the box on 2020 census forms. | l*******g
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