Afro-Dominicans (Dominican Republic)

Black (Spanish: Negro, colloq. Moreno) is part of a racial classification system in the Dominican Republic, The census bureau decided to not use racial classification in the 1970 census. The Dominican identity card (issued by the Junta Central Electoral) used to categorised people as yellow, white, indian, and black, in 2011 the Junta planned to replace indian with mulatto in a new ID card with biometric data that was under development, but in 2014 when it released the new ID card, it decided to just drop racial categorisation, the old ID card expired on 10 January 2015. The Ministry of Public Works and Communications uses racial classification in the driver’s license, being white, mestizo, mulatto, black, and yellow the categories used.

Afro-Dominicans (Dominican Republic)

Black (Spanish: Negro, colloq. Moreno) is part of a racial classification system in the Dominican Republic, The census bureau decided to not use racial classification in the 1970 census. The Dominican identity card (issued by the Junta Central Electoral) used to categorised people as yellow, white, indian, and black, in 2011 the Junta planned to replace indian with mulatto in a new ID card with biometric data that was under development, but in 2014 when it released the new ID card, it decided to just drop racial categorisation, the old ID card expired on 10 January 2015. The Ministry of Public Works and Communications uses racial classification in the driver’s license, being white, mestizo, mulatto, black, and yellow the categories used.