Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity Federal Register: The Daily Journal of the United States Government A Notice by the Management and Budget Office on 09/30/2016 2016-09-30 4 pages Howard A. Shelanski, Administrator Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs AGENCY: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and…

  • Collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification. The New York City Council Melissa Mark-Viverito, Speaker 2014-11-25 (Passed 2016-11-13) Int 0551-2014, Version A (2014-11-25) A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification Proposed Int. No. 551-A would require the Department of Social Services,…

  • Federal officials may revamp how Americans identify race, ethnicity on census and other forms Pew Research Center 2016-10-04 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor Federal officials are moving ahead with the most important potential changes in two decades in how the government asks Americans about their racial and Hispanic identity. They include combining separate race and Hispanic…

  • The way ahead The Economist 2016-10-08 Barack Obama, President of The United States America’s president writes for us about four crucial areas of unfinished business in economic policy that his successor will have to tackle WHEREVER I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the…

  • The “Birther” Movement: Whites Defining Black Racism Review 2016-09-18 Dr. Terence Fitzgerald, Clinical Associate Professor University of Southern California Hallelujah I say, Hallelujah! Did you hear the news? Did ya? After sending a team of investigators to Hawaii, drawing the attention of the national and international media, and leading an almost six year charge of…

  • Meritocracy in Obama’s Gilded Age The Chronicle of Higher Education 2016-09-25 Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York The Obama administration’s vision of social mobility in America is bound up with a story about higher education. According to this story, elite colleges and universities are engines of American opportunity. They select the…

  • American thinking about race is starting to influence Brazil, the country whose population was shaped more than any other’s by the Atlantic slave trade

  • White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people USA Today 2016-10-01 Gregory Korte, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — The White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in…

  • For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2016-09-29 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent When the test scores came out, Lucas Siqueira, 27, was really excited. His high mark on the Foreign Service exam earned him a coveted position at Brazil’s highly competitive Ministry…

  • ‘Pigmentocracy’ a Major Factor in Brazil, Venezuela Turmoil Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-08-11 Ray Legendre A global audience watched Brazil unveil the 2016 Olympics earlier this month with a flashy, jubilant opening ceremony that celebrated its racial diversity and belied its ongoing political and economic strife. But acting President Michel…