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  • The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census

    The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census Social Science History Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 485-519 Rebecca Jean Emigh, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Dylan Riley, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Patricia Ahmed South Dakota State University This paper examines the demographic categories in…

  • Mexico ‘discovers’ 1.4 million black Mexicans—they just had to ask

    Mexico ‘discovers’ 1.4 million black Mexicans—they just had to ask Fusion 2015-12-15 Rafa Fernandez De Castro For the first time in its history, Mexico’s census bureau has recognized the country’s black population in a national survey that found there are approximately 1.4 million citizens (1.2% of the population) who self-identify as “Afro-Mexican” or “Afro-descendant.” The…

  • Choose Your Own Identity

    Choose Your Own Identity The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-14 Bonnie Tsui A series of portraits from “The Hapa Project” by the artist Kip Fulbeck. Kip Fulbeck/The Hapa Project I never realized how little I understood race until I tried to explain it to my 5-year-old son. Our family story doesn’t seem too complicated: I’m…

  • 1.38 Million Afro-Descendants Are Identified on the Mexican Census for the First Time

    1.38 Million Afro-Descendants Are Identified on the Mexican Census for the First Time Remezcla 2015-12-10 Yara Simón Since the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexico’s national identity has been defined by mestizaje – a term that recognizes mixed racial ancestry of the New World after colonization. But although Mexico’s African presence was considerable from the start of…

  • Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed

    Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed Black Agenda Report: News, information and analysis from the black left. 2015-12-01 Danny Haiphong The U.S. imperial domain floats on raw force and fairy tales. One myth “paints the U.S. as a safe haven for people of different backgrounds instead of the genocidal settler state that it…

  • Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America

    Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-19, 12:00-14:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This is one of a year-long series of events that explore what it means to be multiracial in a…

  • Are multiracial millennials leading the way towards an inclusive society?

    While the nation’s multiracial population is growing – does that make our culture more understanding of issues of diversity?

  • OPINION: Mixed raced children will not fix racism

    Danielle Bowler says being a visibly mixed-raced person is often to encounter yourself as a perpetual question.

  • Love in the face of racism: Being an interracial family

    Love in the face of racism: Being an interracial family Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-11-25 Jareen Imam, Social Discovery Producer CNN)—When Karen Garsee picked her 5-year-old daughter up from kindergarten in September, she wasn’t prepared for what Kaylee had to say. The kids at school wouldn’t play with me today. Why? Because I’m brown. Those…

  • Mixed-race marriages a reflection of multicultural Blacktown

    Mixed-race marriages a reflection of multicultural Blacktown The Daily Telegraph Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia 2015-12-01 Nick Houghton Joanne Vella, Editor Blacktown Advocate Quakers Hill one of Blacktown’s most livable suburbs Iranian migrant calls ‘multicultural tolerant’ Australia home WHEN Stephen Zahra went on a four-week holiday to Vietnam in 2006, little did he know…