Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • He’s Not Black The Washington Post 2008-11-30   Marie Arana He is also half white. Unless the one-drop rule still applies, our president-elect is not black. We call him that—he calls himself that—because we use dated language and logic. After more than 300 years and much difficult history, we hew to the old racist rule:…

  • New Challenges in Measuring Race in the United States 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics Omni Shorem Hotel, Washington, D.C. 2010-08-17 46 pages/slides Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus University of Michigan Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research The Multiracial Movement of the 1990s [page/slide 2] After Census 1990, a small social movement…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Jen Chau Reflects on Her Work as a Change-Maker for Mixed-Race Communities JVoices.com 2008-12-03 Cole Krawitz Jen Chau, founder and director of SWIRL, (and an eagerly anticipated contributor to JVoices) will be presenting this Sunday at Inside the Activists’ Studio (which JVoices is a co-sponsor) on how activism needs a serious make-over, and tools for…

  • Color outside the lines Columbia Missourian 2006-06-11 Sara Fernández Cendon The boundaries between traditional racial categories shift as more people identify themselves as multiracial. The term adds another dimension to the complex issue of race in America. Some say Tiger Woods started it all. After winning the Masters Tournament in 1997, the golf star described…

  • Not Quite White: Race Classification and the Arab American Experience This paper was first presented at a symposium on Arab Americans by: The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Georgetown University 1997-04-04 (This is also a chapter in Arabs in America: Building a New Future) Issues of race and identity are certainly dominant factors in American…

  • The “Multiracial” Option: Social Group Identity and Changing Patterns of Racial Categorization American Politics Research Volume 39, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 176-204 DOI: 10.1177/1532673X10378845 Natalie Masuoka, Assistant Professor of Political Science Tufts University This article focuses on a new and growing trend in the United States: multiracial (or mixed race) identification. Multiracial self-identification forces…

  • Double-barrelled race system to start on Saturday Today Online 2010-12-31 Zul Othman SINGAPORE – From Saturday, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will implement the registration of dual heritage options for children with parents of different races. This means these children will be able to share dual heritages on their identity cards (ICs), by way…