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  • Census categories for mixed race and mixed ethnicity: impacts on data collection and analysis in the US, UK and NZ

    Census categories for mixed race and mixed ethnicity: impacts on data collection and analysis in the US, UK and NZ Public Health Published online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.12.017 S. A. Valles, Assistant Professor Lyman Briggs College and Department of Philosophy Michigan State University R. S. Bhopal, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health;Honorary Consultant in…

  • One Drop of Love at Iowa State University

    One Drop of Love at Iowa State University Great Hall, Memorial Union Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2015-03-01, 19:00 CST (Local Time), Doors open at 18:30 One Drop of Love produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, performed by Fanshen Cox Digiovanni is a multimedia solo show that tells the story of how the notion…

  • Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries

    Pigmentocracies: Educational Inequality, Skin Color and Census Ethnoracial Identification in Eight Latin American Countries Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Available online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2015.02.002 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University René Flores University of Washington Fernando Urrea Giraldo, Professor of Sociology Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia Highlights We use two measures of race…

  • Our rising white-black multiracial population

    Our rising white-black multiracial population The Avenue / Rethinking Metropolitan America The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-02-23 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program The fastest growing racial group in the country is those who identify themselves as “two or more” races. Yet, perhaps most encouraging, as discussed in my book Diversity Explosion, is…

  • One Drop of Love

    One Drop of Love Northern Arizona University Ashurst Hall Flagstaff, Arizona Wednesday, 2015-02-18, 18:00 MST (Local Time) Performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. Presented by NAU College of Education One Drop of Love, is an hour-long one woman show. This funny, interactive and moving memoir explores history, family, race, class, justice and love and takes audiences from…

  • Checking Boxes: A close look at mixed-race identity and the law

    Checking Boxes: A close look at mixed-race identity and the law Macomb County Leagal News Mt. Clemens, Michgan 2015-02-05 Jenny Whalen, ‎Web Communications Specialist School of Law University of Michigan Professor Martha S. Jones has long struggled with the idea of checking more than one box. Her reluctance to do so has been influenced by…

  • Census Bureau may count Arab-Americans for the first time in 2020

    Census Bureau may count Arab-Americans for the first time in 2020 PBS NewsHour Public Broadcasting System 2015-01-30 Jeff Karoub, Reporter The Associated Press DETROIT — The federal government is considering allowing those of Middle Eastern and North African descent to identify as such on the next 10-year Census, which could give Arab-Americans and other affected…

  • Mixed Race People Are Changing The Face Of America

    Mixed Race People Are Changing The Face Of America Huffington Post Live 2013-10-04 Hosted by: Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Guests: Marvin Russell @marvinrussell (Chicago, IL) CEO of The Ocean Agency Sarah Willie-LeBreton (Swarthmore, PA) Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben (New York, NY) Author of “There’s an Easter Egg on Your Seder Plate”…

  • Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality

    Brazil’s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and life expectancy has increased during the past thirty years, the gaps in mortality between rich…

  • Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song

    Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song The Kelvingrove Review Issue 13: Dialogue Across Decades (2014-05-27) 5 pages Mengxi Pang Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Aspinall, Peter J. and Miri Song, Mixed Race Identities (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 218 pp. As the fastest growing population…