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  • Social representations of ‘mixed-race’ in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives

    Social representations of ‘mixed-race’ in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2015-01-23 19 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.992924 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Public Health Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent, United Kingdom Over the last two decades, lay and professional interest in Britain’s ‘mixed-race’ population…

  • Some other race

    Some other race The Economist 2013-02-09 How should America count its Hispanics? THE noisy debate over how to fix America’s immigration system is mainly about the large and rapidly growing Hispanic minority. Behind this hums a quieter debate over how they should be counted. Every ten years the American government conducts a census of its…

  • The Children of Loving v. Virginia: Living at the Intersection of Law and Mixed-Race Identity

    The Children of Loving v. Virginia: Living at the Intersection of Law and Mixed-Race Identity Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special Lecture University of Michigan 2015-01-19 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School Prof. Martha S. Jones, who codirects the Program in Race,…

  • The Fluidity of Race: “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940

    The Fluidity of Race: “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940 The National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 20828 January 2015 76 pages DOI: 10.3386/w20828 Emily Nix Department of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Nancy Qian, Associate Professor of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut This paper quantifies the extent to which…

  • What If Everything You Know About Race Is Wrong?

    What If Everything You Know About Race Is Wrong? Texas Public Radio San Antonio, Texas 2015-01-15 Jack Morgan, Arts and Culture Reporter Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni A one-woman show is coming to the Tobin Center and it’s probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen. It’s called “One Drop of Love.” starring Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, produced by Ben…

  • One Drop of Love

    One Drop of Love Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater 100 Auditorium Circle San Antonio, Texas 78205 2015-01-17, 14:00 CST and 20:00 CST (Local Time) BMW OF SAN ANTONIO SIGNATURE SERIES “Amazing performance, staging, autobiography and artistry, and an amazing meditation on race and examination of America.” – Ben Affleck, 2013…

  • Don’t put race in a box

    Don’t put race in a box The Eastern Echo Ypsilanti, Michigan 2015-01-11 C.A. Joseph Peters One ought to talk about race like one talks about their mother’s age: very rarely and very discreetly. Given the Census Bureau’s outdated categories, I say it’s time for one of those rare and discreet conversations. In January 2013, Haya…

  • How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America

    How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America The Diane Rehm Show WAMU 88.5 FM Washington, D.C. 2015-01-05 Diane Rehm, Host Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center Jim Tankersley, Economic Policy Correspondent The Washington Post William Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program (author of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America)…

  • Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States

    Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States American Journal of Sociology Volume 118, Number 3, November 2012 pages 676–727 DOI: 10.1086/667722 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine The authors link the literature on racial fluidity and inequality in the United States…

  • Census Bureau’s Plan to Cut Marriage and Divorce Questions Has Academics Up in Arms

    Census Bureau’s Plan to Cut Marriage and Divorce Questions Has Academics Up in Arms The New York Times 2014-12-31 Justin Wolfers, Senior Fellow Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C. also: Professor of Economics and Public Policy University of Michigan If the Census Bureau proceeds with a recently released plan, then in a few years’ time,…