Category: Census/Demographics

  • One-Woman Multimedia Show ONE DROP OF LOVE Comes to The Fox Theatre, 9/21 BroadwayWorld.com Atlanta 2014-07-10 The Fox Theatre is presenting One Drop of Love on Sunday, September 21 at 3 PM and 7 PM in the Fox Theatre’s Egyptian Ballroom. The show is a multimedia solo performance exploring family, race, love, pain and a…

  • Making Race Count in the Census New York University King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South New York, New York 10012 Wednesday, 2014-09-17, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Are Hispanics becoming white? Are Latin@s a race? How can we account for race and ethnicity in ways that best represent our interests? Can…

  • What Are You, Anyway? Brown Alumni Magazine Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island September/October 2014 Amy DuBois Barnett ’91 It was a muggy day in September 1987. Thanks to the dense New England humidity of a stubborn Indian summer, most of us pre-freshmen had hung our crisp new college outfits in the narrow dorm closets and…

  • Between two worlds The Guardian/The Observer 2003-04-05 Geraldine Bedell Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations – but many people are still hostile towards interracial couples. We asked some of them how their lives have been affected During the 1991 Gulf war, Richard Littlejohn wrote in the Sun that British women married to Iraqis…

  • The complicity cost of racial inclusion Al Jazeera America 2014-08-24 Julia Carrie Wong Oakland, California When Brook Soso, a new Asian-American character in the second season of “Orange Is the New Black,” arrives at the federal prison in Litchfield, New York, a fellow inmate named Lorna Morello provides her with a toothbrush and bar of…

  • Race statistics: how to get from where we are to where we should be: a rejoinder Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1852-1856 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932413 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University America’s race statistics are inadequate to the policy challenges of…

  • Utopian visions of racial admixture Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1847-1851 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932409 C. Matthew Snipp, Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Sociology Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Carter, Greg, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of…

  • The collection of race-based data in the USA: a call for radical change Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1839-1846 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932407 Peter Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, United Kingdom Carter, Greg, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian…

  • How Ferguson could be America’s future Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-08-23 John Blake (CNN) — The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have been described as a mirror into contemporary America, but they are also something else: A crystal ball. Look past the headlines — the debates over race and police militarization that have surfaced after the…

  • Global Mixed Race New York University Press March 2014 357 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814770733 Paper ISBN: 9780814789155 Edited by: Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Maynooth Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in…