Category: United States

  • Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data Sociology Compass Volume 6, Issue 4, April 2012 pages 316–331 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00454.x Nikki Khanna, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Vermont In 2010, approximately nine million Americans self-identified with more than one race on the U.S. Census – a 32 percent increase…

  • Morgan Goode: On Board with the Future of the Movement The Bilerico Project 2012-03-21 Amy Andre, Project Contributor If you haven’t heard of her already, BiNet USA board member Morgan Goode is a name for you to remember. At this year’s Creating Change conference, she co-led a workshop about mixed race issues that brought a…

  • 2010 Census Shows Asians are Fastest-Growing Race Group United States Census Bureau 2012-03-21 The U.S. Census Bureau today released a 2010 Census brief, The Asian Population: 2010 [PDF], that shows the Asian population grew faster than any other race group over the last decade. The population that identified as Asian, either alone or in combination…

  • Family Tree’s Startling Roots The New York Times 2012-03-19 Felicia Lee Thirty-nine lashes “well laid” on her bare back and an extension of her indentured servitude was Elizabeth Banks’s punishment for “fornication & Bastardy with a negroe slave,” according to a stark June 20, 1683, court document from York County, Va. Through the alchemy of…

  • The Obama Effect: Understanding Emerging Meanings of “Obama” in Anti-Discrimination Law Indiana Law Journal Volume 87: Issue 1 (Spring 2012) pages 328-348 Symposium: “Labor and Employment Under the Obama Administration: A Time for Hope and Change?” Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles and Marion Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa Mario L. Barnes, Professor of Law University…

  • The Impact of the Obama Presidency on Civil Rights Enforcement in the United States Indiana Law Journal Volume 87: Issue 1 (Spring 2012) Symposium: “Labor and Employment Under the Obama Administration: A Time for Hope and Change?” Joel Wm. Friedman, Jack M. Gordon Professor of Law Tulane University Law School Panel 6: Employment Law: Antidiscrimination…

  • “White Latino” Leaders: A Foregone Conclusion or Mischaracterization of Latino Society The Modern American Volume 3, Issue 2 (Summer-Fall, 2007) Article 11 pages 62-65 Eric M. Gutierrez Am I white? My personal inquiry into race begins with a school picture of a six-year-old boy. My dark brown hair, parted to one side, falls impishly over…

  • White Latinos Harvard Latino Law Review Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 2003) 8 pages Ian Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley Who are the leaders in Latino communities? This question does not admit simple answers, for who counts as a leader and what Latino identity entails are both contentious…

  • For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post 2012-03-18 Bruce Smith, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century…

  • Spotlight on Jon Veilie: A Man on a Thirteen Year Mission The Modern American Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) Article 8 pages 22-23 Lydia Edwards It all started one month after he passed the bar. Sylvia Davis, a black Seminole, came to Jon for help. She had been to many lawyers already. She told…