Category: Census/Demographics

  • Census Data Confusion, Manipulation, and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry or “Should Latino be a Race?” Presented at The Second Annual Mixed Heritage Conference University of California, Los Angeles 2014-04-16 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) Multiracial Americans President Thomas Lopez delivers a talk on changing the Census categories to allow Latino to…

  • Colour-blind love is the mark of a healthy and dynamic society The Guardian/The Observer 2014-07-05 Anushka Asthana, Political Correspondent Sky News In Britain, there are ever more ‘mixed’ marriages such as mine. And society is enriched by this trend A friend tells me her mother is “fully Chinese”, while her father is slightly Spanish, a…

  • Census Bureau explores new Middle East/North Africa ethnic category Pew Research Center 2014-03-24 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project Organizations representing people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are asking the Census Bureau to add a new ethnic category on forms. People of this heritage are now categorized as “white,”…

  • Multiracial Identity for the Year 2000 Census C-SPAN 1998-05-30 Panelists discussed the federal government’s recent decision to allow individuals to define their race by more than one category on the 2000 census. They discussed the implications of this decision and its effect on areas such as social program funding and political representation. Panelists also answered media questions.…

  • To Measure More Diverse America, Solution May Be in Census Questions The New York Times 2014-07-01 Tanzina Vega When Alexa Aviles received her census form in 2010, she was frustrated by the choices. Like all Hispanics, Ms. Aviles, a Puerto Rican who lives in Brooklyn, was first asked to identify her ethnicity and then to…

  • Latinos and Whiteness: On Being Sold An Empty White Privilege Knapsack Race-work, Race-love 2014-06-13 Blanca E. Vega (@BlancaVNYC), writer, educator, and race-worker Sophia (@sophiagurule) on May 30th replied to my tweet about White Supremacy and Latinidad: “‪@BlancaVNYC : and yep ‪#nuncamas. this [choosing White on the Census] has haunted/shaped my life, and used against me,…

  • On The Census, Who Checks ‘Hispanic,’ Who Checks ‘White,’ And Why Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-16 Gene Demby, Lead Blogger We’ve been talking a lot lately about how who fills out the Census in what way. It’s an ongoing preoccupation of Code Switch, and one shared by Julie…

  • Black In The Dominican Republic: Denying Blackness HuffPost Live The Huffington Post 2014-06-10 Marc Lamont Hill, Host In Latin America and Caribbean countries like the Dominican Republic many deny being of African decent, despite 90 percent of the population possessing black ancestry. Where has the blackness gone in the region? Guests: Biany Perez (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)…

  • One Drop of Love – a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at the Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations 2014-06-12, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations and the Brooklyn Historical Society is delighted to host One Drop of Love, a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni that incorporates…

  • What Is Your Race? For Millions Of Americans, A Shifting Answer Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-09 Gene Demby, Lead Blogger Race is a much more elastic concept than we tend to acknowledge. American history has seen lots of immigrant groups that were the targets of suspicion and even…