Category: United States

  • Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940 Alabama Pioneers 2015-11-06 Donna R. Causey THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama are a group of people of mixed racial blood known in that section as Indian Cajans. Living…

  • I See Color and You Should Too Alex Barnett: Stand-up Comedian and Multiracial Family Man 2015-10-13 Alex Barnett As a comic and member of a multiracial family, I deal frequently with issues of race in my act and debunk myths. For example, it is not true that all biracial toddlers can move objects with their…

  • Every term the Census has used to describe America’s racial and ethnic groups since 1790 The Washington Post 2015-11-04 Laris Karklis, Deputy Graphics Director Emily Badger, Urban Policy Writer This chart is based on an interactive the Census Bureau published this week tracing the history of these changes, from the proliferation of new racial and…

  • At a place like Columbia, where how you identify can define the spaces you occupy and the people you interact with, being of mixed race presents an extra challenge. The balancing act between multiple cultures, communities, and colors can leave one wondering where they belong.

  • An Insidious Way to Underrepresent Minorities The American Prospect 2015-11-05 Gary D. Bass, Executive Director Bauman Foundation, Washington, D.C. Adrien Schless-Meier, Program Associate Bauman Foundation, Washington, D.C. Cuts in U.S. Census funding threaten to produce an undercount of minorities and the poor and to reduce their share of federal aid. African Americans, Hispanics, and other…

  • Koreans & Camptowns: Reflections of a Mixed-Race Korean Korean American Story 2015-11-04 Cerrissa Kim I’ve often stood out from the crowd, and not in a way that made me feel like a rock star—far from it. Growing up in a rural town filled with dairy cows and Caucasian farmers, and then in a bedroom community…

  • Measuring Race And Ethnicity Across The Decades: 1790-2010 Random Samplings: The official blog of the U.S. Census Bureau United States Census Bureau 2015-11-02 Beverly M. Pratt Population Division Lindsay Hixson Population Division Nicholas A. Jones Population Division Over the years, the U.S. Census Bureau has collected information on race and ethnicity. The census form has…

  • Sense of Place with Guest Sharon H. Chang Sense of Place Roundhouse Radio 98.3 FM Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada November 2015 Minelle Mahtani, Host Minelle Mahtani and Sharon H. Chang (Source: Facebook) Author, scholar, sociologist, and activist Sharon H. Chang discusses her new book Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World. Listen…

  • The day my daughter realized she isn’t white The Washington Post 2015-11-03 Lisa Papademetriou “Mama,” my 4-year-old daughter said. “Did you know that darks and lights didn’t used to be able to go to the same places?” “What?” I asked. It was bedtime, and I was tired. I wondered vaguely how Zara knew so much…

  • Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City Temple University Press November 2015 198 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43991-119-8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43991-118-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43991-120-4 Michael T. Maly, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Policy Research Collaborative Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of…