Category: Census/Demographics

  • Racial Boundary Formation at the Dawn of Jim Crow: The Determinants and Effects of Black/Mulatto Occupational Differences in the United States, 1880 Department Colloquium Series University of Washington, Department of Sociology Savery Hall 2009-10-06 15:30 PDT (Local Time) Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor University of Oregon Much of the literature within sociology regarding mixed-race populations focuses…

  • The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and estimates Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2000-05-23 vol. 97 no. 11 pages 6230-6235 Joshua R. Goldstein Ann J. Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University This paper presents national estimates of the population likely to identify with more than one race in…

  • Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader New York Univeristy Press 2003-02-01 512 pages ISBN: 9780814742570 Edited by: Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies University of California Davis For the first time in United States history, the Year 2000 census allowed people to check more than one box to identify…

  • Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures Richmond Now The Faculty, Staff and Student Newspaper University of Richmond By Joan Tupponce April 2007 No one is more intrigued with news about presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama or professional golfer Tiger Woods than Dr. Suzanne W. Jones, professor of English and women, gender…

  • The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals Russell Sage Foundation October 2002 391 pages Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-657-9, ISBN-10: 0-87154-657-4 Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-658-6, ISBN-10: 0-87154-658-2 Edited by Joel Perlmann, Senior Scholar and Program Director Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University The change in…

  • Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 225 pages ISBN: 978-0-292-74345-8 Print-on-demand title Edited by: SanSan Kwan, Associate Professor of Dance, Performance Studies University of California, Berkeley and Kenneth Speirs (1964-2013), Professor of English University of California, Berkeley Foreword by Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The…

  • From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans Praeger Publishers an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group 1998 160 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 0-275-96744-1; ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96744-4 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey Is a person with both a white and African American parent…

  • Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition Penn State Press 2001 (Originally published in 1992) 232 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-271-02172-0 F. James Davis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology Illinois State University Winner of the 1992 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in…

  • The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (2nd Edition) Prentice Hall 2001 525 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0130283231; ISBN-13:  9780130283238 Edited By: Joan Ferrante Northern Kentucky University Prince Brown, Jr. Northern Kentucky University For undergraduate courses in race and ethnic relations. This groundbreaking collection of classic and cutting edge sociological research gives…

  • Multiracial Classification on the United States Census: Myth, Reality, and Future Impact Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales Volume 21, Number 2 (2005) Pages 111-134 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University The 2000 census in the United States provoked a flurry of media attention in the months leading up to it, as well…