
Who You Calling 'Hispanic'?
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Porto Rico
In the fifties, porto rico got permission from the federal government to conduct its own census. It called it al senso crioo and it just eliminated the race question. The decision reflected a deeper philosophy inlias ladis government, that we did not need to document how many white people or how many black people because that ran counter to the idea of us being a mixed group of people.
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