Category: Census/Demographics

  • The Whiteness Project: Facing Race In A Changing America National Public Radio All Things Considered 2014-12-21 Karen Grigsby Bates Los Angeles Correspondent Whitney Dow found participants in the Whiteness Project by putting out a call for interested white folks in Buffalo to talk about whiteness on tape. The voices in the Whiteness Project vary by…

  • Multiracial Marriage on the Rise The Brookings Institution The Avenue: Rethinking Metropoliitian America 2014-12-18 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program One consequence of America’s diversity explosion is a rise in multiracial marriages. In 1960, before immigration levels to the United States started to rise, multiracial marriages constituted only 0.4 percent of all U.S.…

  • Drawing on an analysis of all national censuses conducted in Latin America from 1850 to 1950, this article examines how tacit assumptions about the nature of « whiteness » informed the production of statistical knowledge about Latin American populations.

  • Jewish tent widens as diversity grows The Chicago Tribune 2014-12-16 Bonnie Miller Rubin, Reporter Ellen Zemel (left) lends a hand for a symbolic lighting of a menorah for Hanukkah during a party for parents and children of Project Esther: The Chicago Jewish Adoption Network of the Jewish Child & Family Services, at the Elain Kersten…

  • How America will look in 2060, in 7 graphs The Washington Post 2014-12-16 Philip Bump The Census Bureau recently released its 2014 population projections, gaming out the next 45 years of population growth and changes in the United States. For those of us who pay particular attention to the composition of the population (because we…

  • New Projections Point to a Majority Minority Nation in 2044 Brookings Instituion Washington, D.C. 2014-12-12 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program New population projections released this week by the Census Bureau indicate that the U.S. population will become “majority minority” in 2044. At that time, whites will make up 49.7 percent of the…

  • Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census: Improving Data to Capture a Multiethnic America The Leadership Conference Education Fund Washington, D.C. November 2014 36 pages “Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census” is the culmination of The Leadership Conference Education Fund’s year-long project to examine the Census Bureau’s research and testing program from the perspective…

  • Class, Race, or Ethnicity Apart? Changing Whiteness and Counting People of Mexican Descent U.S. History Scene 2013-10-09 Ester Terry University of Pittsburgh In June 2013, Sebastien de la Cruz sang the National Anthem for Games 3 and 4 of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals in San Antonio. In July 2013, Marc Anthony sang “God…

  • How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white? Manchester Policy Blogs: Ethnicity Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom 2014-11-27 Lindsey Garratt, Research Associate The census allows people to identify as Irish only if they are also white. What about the growing number of ethnic minority…

  • The Major Demographic Shift That’s Upending How We Think About Race The New Republic 2014-11-28 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Reprinted with permission from Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America by William H. Frey (Brookings Press, 2014). The usual way that race labels are applied…