Author: Steven

  • Multiracial Patterns in the United States By State Public Research Report No. 2001-02 Race Contours 2000 Study: A University of Southern California and University of Michigan Collaborative Project Released: 2001-04-13 Noel Hacegaba, Adjunct Instructor of Public Administration University of La Verne, La Verne, California Dowell Myer, Professor of Public Policy University of Southern California The…

  • DNA Is Only One Way to Spell Identity The Washington Post 2006-01-01 W. Ralph Eubanks Every year,” I once overheard my father say jokingly to a friend, “thousands of Negroes disappear.” I remember my 8-year-old imagination going into overdrive, picturing people zapped from their homes in the middle of the night. It was only as…

  • In the Eye of the Beholder: Observed Race and Observer Characteristics PSC Research Report Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michgan Report No. 02-522 August 2002 36 pages David R. Harris, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Provost and…

  • Chinese America and the Multiracial Family Chinese American Forum Special Edition (June 2004) pages 15-19 Amy Klazkin This week my husband and I sold our second car. We live in the city, and we don’t need two, so we listed the car on an internet forum and got lots of responses. The first and most…

  • Making Sense of New Census Classifications for Race UCLA School of Public Health Magazine June 2007 page 31 STARTING WITH THE 2000 CENSUS, the federal government revised how it collects data on race and ethnicity—respondents were allowed to identify themselves as a member of more than one category (which 7 million opted to do), whereas…

  • Classification of Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Public Health Annual Review of Public Health Volume 24 (May 2003) pages 83-110 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.24.100901.140927 Vickie M. Mays, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Health Services University of California, Los Angeles Ninez A. Ponce, Associate Professor of Public Heath University of California, Los Angeles Donna L. Washington, M.D.…

  • Ties on the fringes of identity Social Science Research Volume 33, Issue 4 (December 2004) Pages 702-723 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2003.10.002 Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota I use data on part-American Indian children in the 1990 Census 5% PUMS to assess my hypotheses that thick racial ties within the family constrain racial…

  • Where Black-White Couples Live Urban Geography Volume 32, Number 1 (2011-01-01 through 2011-02-14) pages 1-22 DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.32.1.1 Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Steven Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia This study analyzes where households headed by Black-White, mixed-race couples live in cities. Using 2000…

  • The Law of the Census: How to Count, What to Count, Whom to Count, and Where to Count Them Cardozo Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (2011) pages 756-791 Nathaniel Persily, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science Columbia Law School The 2010 Census, like its predecessors, represented a momentous logistical…

  • Review of Spencer, Jon Michael, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America H-Net Reviews January 1998 Richard L. Hughes The Census, Race, and… Amid a racial climate which includes a presidential advisory board on race and a discussion of slavery within the popular media, there lies an increasingly prominent dialogue on race in…