Mixed Race Studies

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  • Validity of Infant Race/Ethnicity from Birth Certificates in the Context of U.S. Demographic Change

    Validity of Infant Race/Ethnicity from Birth Certificates in the Context of U.S. Demographic Change Health Services Research Volume 49, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 249–267 DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12083 Lisa Reyes Mason, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Tennessee, Knoxville Yunju Nam, Associate Professor of Social Work State University of New York, Buffalo Youngmi Kim, Assistant…

  • Will Today’s Hispanics Be Tomorrow’s Whites?

    Will Today’s Hispanics Be Tomorrow’s Whites? Slate 2014-04-15 Jamelle Bouie, staff writer covering politics, policy, and race How Hispanics perceive themselves may shape the future of race in America. The Trayvon Martin shooting was hardly in the national consciousness before fault lines emerged around the case. Was Martin as innocent as he seemed? Did Zimmerman…

  • Americans Say Obama’s Not Black? How Pew Got This Wrong

    Americans Say Obama’s Not Black? How Pew Got This Wrong The Root 2014-04-14 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Senior Staff Writer and White House Correspondent Saying “Yes, Obama is mixed race” is not the same as saying “No, he’s not black.” Racial Identity 101: You can be both. Twenty-seven percent of Americans say President Barack Obama is black,…

  • Forget Policy—Americans Can’t Even Agree on Whether Obama Is Black

    Forget Policy—Americans Can’t Even Agree on Whether Obama Is Black TakePart 2014-04-15 Liz Dwyer, Staff Writer A Pew Research Center study finds that whites and Latinos identify the commander-in-chief as ‘mixed race.’ If you thought the United States had achieved the significant historic milestone of electing its first African American president, think again. According to…

  • The Next America

    The Next America Pew Research Center 2014-04-10 Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President of Special Projects Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion. America is in the midst of two right now. Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Each of these shifts would by itself be…

  • Mixed or Not, Why Are We Still Taking Pictures of “Race”?

    Just days ago PolicyMic put up a piece entitled “National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful.” In it writer Zak Cheney-Rice attempts to address the so-called rise of multiracial peoples which has captured/enchanted the public eye and with which the media has become deeply enamored.

  • National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful

    National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful PolicyMic 2014-04-10 Zak Cheney-Rice, Writer covering race, hip-hop, sports and pop culture It’s no secret that interracial relationships are trending upward, and in a matter of years we’ll have Tindered, OKCupid-ed and otherwise sexed ourselves into one giant amalgamated mega-race. But what…

  • ‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census

    ‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census Pew Research Center 2014-04-04 Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project What is your race? The U.S. Census Bureau asks this question of every U.S. household, but the menu of options offered…

  • Where Did “Hispanics” Come From?

    Where Did “Hispanics” Come From? Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2014-03-29 Claude S. Fischer, Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley One may well wonder where the term “Hispanic,” and for that matter, “Latino,” came from. The press and pundits are all abuzz about the Hispanic vote, Hispanic organizations, and Hispanic cultural influences. Back…

  • Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

    How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in “Making Hispanics.”