Researchers across disciplines have analyzed the ethnoracial classification of Latinxs in the US census, as well as the ideological, political, and material underpinnings and effects of such classification. In this article, I advance our understanding of the census’ reproduction of racial identities and racial discourse in two ways. First, I demonstrate that sociolinguistic theory and methods can shed new light on census classification in three distinct areas: (1) the categories and classifications themselves, (2) the negotiation of ethnoracial classification during census interviews, and (3) the language in which censuses are conducted. Second, I demonstrate that census-taking does not consist simply of recording preexisting ethnoracial identities, or of disseminating official discourses from interviewers to respondents. Instead, census interviews involve the intersubjective construction and production of ethnoracial identities, as interviewers and respondents negotiate the meaning of the categories provided and their places within them.

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成为西班牙裔：美国人口普查访谈中的种族认同谈判

跨学科的研究人员分析了美国人口普查中拉丁裔的种族分类，以及这种分类的意识形态、政治和物质基础和影响。在本文中，我从两个方面推进我们对人口普查再现种族身份和种族话语的理解。首先，我证明社会语言学理论和方法可以在三个不同领域为人口普查分类提供新的思路：(1) 类别和分类本身，(2) 人口普查访谈期间种族分类的协商，以及 (3) 使用的语言进行人口普查。其次，我证明人口普查不只是记录先前存在的种族身份，也不包括从采访者向受访者传播官方话语。反而，