Category: Census/Demographics

  • Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask Pew Research Center 2015-11-06 Eileen Patten, Research Analyst In 2014, as Pew Research Center prepared to conduct the first major study of the views of multiracial Americans—a group that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is poised to triple by 2060—we faced a fundamental and unavoidable methodological…

  • Every term the Census has used to describe America’s racial and ethnic groups since 1790 The Washington Post 2015-11-04 Laris Karklis, Deputy Graphics Director Emily Badger, Urban Policy Writer This chart is based on an interactive the Census Bureau published this week tracing the history of these changes, from the proliferation of new racial and…

  • An Insidious Way to Underrepresent Minorities The American Prospect 2015-11-05 Gary D. Bass, Executive Director Bauman Foundation, Washington, D.C. Adrien Schless-Meier, Program Associate Bauman Foundation, Washington, D.C. Cuts in U.S. Census funding threaten to produce an undercount of minorities and the poor and to reduce their share of federal aid. African Americans, Hispanics, and other…

  • Measuring Race And Ethnicity Across The Decades: 1790-2010 Random Samplings: The official blog of the U.S. Census Bureau United States Census Bureau 2015-11-02 Beverly M. Pratt Population Division Lindsay Hixson Population Division Nicholas A. Jones Population Division Over the years, the U.S. Census Bureau has collected information on race and ethnicity. The census form has…

  • “Asian Latinos” and the U.S. Census AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community Volume 10, Number 2 (2012) pages 119-138 DOI: 10.17953/appc.10.2.m04004632k7n353l Robert Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Kevin Escudero, Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Professor Emerita Department of…

  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…

  • Diversity and cohesion in Britain’s most mixed community Financial Times 2015-10-14 John McDermott At the Barking Road Community Centre in Plaistow, dancers sway and twirl to calypso beats. If the music hints at the centre’s past as an Afro-Caribbean club, the mix of elderly boppers suggest how the composition of this pocket of east London…

  • Do You Have a Cherokee in Your Family Tree? History News Network George Mason University 2015-10-18 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Gregory D. Smithers is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (Yale…

  • From Multiracial to Transgender? Assessing Attitudes toward Expanding Gender Options on the US Census Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 2, Number 1, February 2015 pages 77-100 DOI: 10.1215/23289252-2848895 Kristen Schilt, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Jenifer Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University, Houston, Texas In 2000, the US Census Bureau acknowledged…

  • OPINION: The changing racial makeup Commerce News Today Commerce, Georgia 2015-10-13 Cameron Whitlock, Reporter The racial makeup of the United States is changing. That’s not an opinion, that’s a cold hard fact. By 2050, racial minority groups will make up a majority of the U.S. population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau and a study…