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Arab Americans lobbied for their own US census box. Will it backfire?

March 28, 2017
Culture

The Census Bureau has recommended that a new Middle East and North Africa (MENA) racial category be added to the next census, coming in 2020. This could be interpreted as an alarming development — but advocacy groups have been pushing for it for a while.

Arab Americans lobbied for their own US census box. Will it backfire?

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