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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With the latest Supreme Court ruling, it looks like there will no longer be an advantage for white kids who lie and claim Hispanic or black.[/quote]
Hispanic/Latino is the ethnicity question, which is a separate question from race. Many, perhaps even most, Hispanic students in the US check the white box when asked for race. There is no Mestizo option. (The "American Indian or Alaska Native" box pulls up questions asking for federal tribe identification info.) This is entirely the result of federal reporting requirements.[/quote]

There is "Other" , right? And "2 or more"?

So there are alternatives at least as accurate as White.
In US the race box is used for a crude measure of systemic oppression. 
(White = Other but not systemically oppressed.
Other, 2 or More = systemically oppressed)

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/16/321819185/on-the-census-who-checks-hispanic-who-checks-white-and-why[/quote]
There is "one or more."

However, there is no "other" among the 5 race choices. If one first chooses "white", there is an "other" that leads to an open box to asking "Specify other White background."[/quote]

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