A summary of identity practice: Racial Passing, Gender, and Racial Purity in Puerto Rico.
To sum up, Puerto Rico’s argues that racial passing is part of the toxic universe. Clearly stating how a culture practice belonging to a set of cultural norms and values have been “taken for granted” and common sense has been highly undisputed. The disparate and at times jumbled pattern of racial and ethnic reporting in the 2000 US census results from a conceptual quagmire. The main ideas of this sharp divergence between the geographic definitions of ancestral envisioned by the farmers of the current classification system and the “de facto” measures of race and ethnicity-based on subjective, socially constructed identities. Expansion of this census race included many national origin groups from Asia, not including anyone from the European continent. This was majorly an artifact ideology and politics. This action highly brought separation to the ones with the Hispanic origin. It highly led to the creation of a quasi-racial Hispanic group under the SOR “some other race.” By 1980 those politicians who wanted to test their powers and ethnic root raised the question of the ancestry. Even though the observations that racial and ethnic categories in the census usually shaped by political considerations. The response got is always never accurate measures of ancestral origin; the data often still have value.