Category: United States

  • Census Bureau explores new Middle East/North Africa ethnic category Pew Research Center 2014-03-24 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project Organizations representing people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are asking the Census Bureau to add a new ethnic category on forms. People of this heritage are now categorized as “white,”…

  • Black Indians are constantly confronted with the fact that they do not fit any of society’s stereotypes for Native Americans. Those stereotypes are imposed by both whites and sadly, other Indians.

  • Multiracial Identity for the Year 2000 Census C-SPAN 1998-05-30 Panelists discussed the federal government’s recent decision to allow individuals to define their race by more than one category on the 2000 census. They discussed the implications of this decision and its effect on areas such as social program funding and political representation. Panelists also answered media questions.…

  • To Measure More Diverse America, Solution May Be in Census Questions The New York Times 2014-07-01 Tanzina Vega When Alexa Aviles received her census form in 2010, she was frustrated by the choices. Like all Hispanics, Ms. Aviles, a Puerto Rican who lives in Brooklyn, was first asked to identify her ethnicity and then to…

  • Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation University of North Carolina Press May 2009 328 pages 36 illus., 5 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5934-6 Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., Associate Professor of History; Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York For most of the first half…

  • How Race-Studies Scholars Can Respond to Their Haters Vitae A service of The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-06-27 Stacey Patton, Senior Enterprise Reporter Graduate school prepares students for a range of intellectual and professional endeavors. Unfortunately, responding to scholarly insults and academic shade-throwing isn’t one of them. But for scholars in the fields of race…

  • ‘Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families’?: Slate’s Human Zoo of Race Mongrelization We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even in the Age of Obama Wednesday, 2014-06-25 Chauncey DeVega, Editor and Founder Am I the only person who found Slate.com’s photo essay “Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families” to be very problematic? To my…

  • UCLA Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 – Mixed Stories Team Mixed Show University of California, Los Angeles Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 2014-06-18 Recorded at the Mixed Student Union at UCLA’s Mixed Heritage Conference, April 2014. Participants at the conference share their stories. *Our apologies to the people who we filmed but did not make it into…

  • Bill de Blasio and the Art of Political Image at… the Mermaid Parade The New York Times 2014-06-23 Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Critic Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York with, from left, his son, Dante; his wife, Chirlane McCray; and his daughter, Chiara, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday. [Tina Fineberg/Associated Press]…

  • An Evening with Hip Hop Scholar/Activist and 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate, Rosa Clemente Yemaya Pictures California State University, Los Angeles 2014-05-08, 20:00 PDT 5151 State University Drive Annenberg Science Building 132 (Science Building Wing B, Lecture Hall) Los Angeles, California 90032 From May 8, 2014. The Pan-African Studies Department at California State University,…