Category: Census/Demographics

  • But in January, the bureau abruptly announced it would not move forward with the reforms after all, saying only that “more research and testing” was needed on the addition of a Middle Eastern/North African category.

  • The Recursive Outcomes of the Multiracial Movement and the End of American Racial Categories Studies in American Political Development Volume 31, Issue 1 (April 2017) pages 88-107 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X17000074 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science Portland State University, Portland, Oregon After a protracted national discussion about racial mixture in the early 1990s, the…

  • Jordan offers advice to civic-minded teens, talks the #NeverAgain movement with student activists, and chats with Lacey Schwartz and Mat Johnson of “The Loving Generation.”

  • Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic group in the country. The U.S. Census Bureau projects the nation’s multiracial population will triple by 2060, but not much research has been done on this group. Sarah Gaither is hoping to change that.

  • There’s a big problem with how the census measures race The Washington Post 2018-02-06 Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Graduate Center, City University of New York Activists hold signs during a news conference in front of the Supreme Court in 2015. (Getty Images) Will the 2020 Census be accurate? A number of observers have…

  • We briefly present history, theories, and research about interracial and interethnic romantic relationships, and provide suggestions for future research. We also highlight the need for flexible racial and ethnic categories as demographics and distinctions shift in the United States by proposing the use of adaptable panethnic (a set of related ethnic groups that have been…

  • The Loving Generation tells the story of a generation of Americans born to one black parent and one white parent. Their narratives provide a fascinating and unique window into the borderland between “blackness” and “whiteness”, and, in some cases, explode fixed ideas about race and identity.

  • When I was in my early 30s, I started making a list of every child I could think of who had a black parent and a white parent and was born between 1960 and the mid- to late 1980s.

  • A Census Bureau announcement about the race and ethnicity questions for the 2020 census suggests the Trump administration will not support Obama-era proposals to change how the U.S. government collects information about race and ethnicity, census experts say.

  • The 2020 Census race and ethnicity questions will follow a two-question format for capturing race and ethnicity for both the 2018 Census Test and the 2020 Census, which adheres to the 1997 Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (Statistical Policy Directive No. 15) set by the Office of Management and…