Category: Census/Demographics

  • Why Ethnic Minority Forms Suck for Mixed-Race People The Huffington Post United Kingdom 2016-04-22 Deborah Chatterjee, Co-founder SharedCity, London, United Kingdom There has been a bit of an uproar in Brighton & Hove because children as young as four, are being given the option to leave the gender section on their Primary School application blank…

  • From multiracial children to gender identity, what some demographers are studying now Pew Research Center 2016-04-08 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor The nation’s largest annual demography conference, held in Washington, D.C., last week, featured new research on topics including couples who live in separate homes, children of multiracial couples, transgender Americans, immigration law enforcement and how…

  • About Latino Whiteness… The NiLP Report on Latino Politics & Policy The National Institute for Latino Policy 2016-04-10 CONTENTS “A Response to Linda Martín Alcoff’s ‘Latinos and the Category of Whiteness’” By Manuel Pastor (April 10, 2016) “Reply to Manuel Pastor” by Linda Martín Alcoff (April 10, 2016) Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American…

  • The black people ‘erased from history’ BBC News Magazine 2016-04-10 Arlene Gregorius, BBC Mexico More than a million people in Mexico are descended from African slaves and identify as “black”, “dark” or “Afro-Mexican” even if they don’t look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca they are little-known and the community’s leaders are now…

  • Hapas Soon to Be the Majority in the Japanese American Community AsAmNews: Where the conversation about Asian America Begins 2016-04-16 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent The future is now in the Japanese American community. By 2020, just four years away, demographers says the majority of Japanese Americans will be multiracial/multiethnic. A new exhibition now at…

  • The Elusive Nature of the Hispanic Category Brown Political Review Providence, Rhode Island 2016-04-02 Shavon Bell, US Section Staff Writer By 2060, 115 percent more Americans will be of Hispanic origin than in 2015. Consequently, pundits identify “the Hispanic vote” as the next frontier for ensuring political success. Political elites have thus scrambled to investigate,…

  • Among A Race Of Others: An Overview Of Western Racial Classification And Colourism Media Diversified 2016-04-01 Anthony Anaxagorou Recently, a friend asked what makes someone a ‘person of colour’. For many White people and for many people of colour too, the term can seem strangely ambiguous. The ongoing refugee crisis has seen thousands of displaced…

  • Whites living in areas where they are less exposed to those of other races have a harder time categorizing mixed-race individuals than do Whites with greater interracial exposure, a condition that is associated with greater prejudice against mixed-race individuals, a new experimental study shows.

  • On the Boundaries of Race: Identification of Mixed-heritage Children in the United States, 1960 to 2010 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-03-17 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216632546 Carolyn A. Liebler, Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Socially constructed race groups have boundaries that define their membership. I study temporal trends and group-specific patterns in…

  • The Brain Likes Categories. Where Should It Put Mixed-Race People? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-03-15 Katherine Du Humans like to place things in categories and can struggle when things can’t easily be categorized. That also applies to people, a study finds, and the brain’s visual biases may play a role in…