The U.S. Census Bureau added "Mexican" as a racial category in 1930 for people born in Mexico or with Mexican-born parents who were "definitely not white, Negro, Indian, Chinese, or Japanese," but in 1936 the census director ordered that "Mexicans are Whites and must be classified as 'White.'"
Sources
- Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930 (jlhochschild.scholars.harvard.edu)
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/veterans-legacy-program/wwii-veteran-research-guide/census/information-gathering/changes-1920-1950 (gilderlehrman.org)
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w31623 (nber.org)
- https://muse.jhu.edu/book/19833 (muse.jhu.edu)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-history-review/article/abs/another-white-race-mexican-americans-and-the-paradox-of-whiteness-in-jury-selection/55A3C5A071CEA258A97F9B1B2053299D (cambridge.org)
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