Category: Census/Demographics

  • Fitting Into the Right Box: Multiracial America on the Rise Brown Political Review 2013-10-18 Meg Sullivan As swimmer Michael Phelps knows, one of the highest priorities of food corporations is maintaining their squeaky clean mainstream appeal. This usually involves companies giving wide berth to any manner of controversy, but Cheerios ignored this policy four months…

  • Despite Options on Census, Many to Check ‘Black’ Only The New York Times 2000-02-12 Diana Jean Schemo This year’s new, racially inclusive census might have seemed tailor made for Michael Gelobter. The son of a white Jewish father and an African-Bermudan mother, Mr. Gelobter lives in Harlem with his wife, Sharron Williams, a black woman…

  • A Fresh Face On Race The Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut 2001-03-13 Mike Swift, Courant Staff Writer The U.S. Census Bureau’s New Approach And The Latest Population Figures Could Mark ‘The Beginning Of The End Of Racial Classification In America.’ The federal government Monday pegged the number of Americans who are of multiple races at 6.8…

  • The Correspondence Between Interracial Births and Multiple-Race Reporting American Journal of Public Health Volume 92, Number 12 (December 2002) pages 1976–1981 Jennifer D. Parker, PhD Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland Jennifer H. Madans, PhD, OD Co-Deputy Director / OD Associate Director for Science / OPBL Associate…

  • Interracial births in Baltimore, 1950-1964 Public Health Reports Volume 81, Number 11 (November 1966) pages 967-971 Sidney M. Norton, Director of the Bureau of Vital Records Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, Maryland Also Assistant, Department of Chronic Diseases School of Hygiene and Public Health Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland During the course of routine, periodic…

  • Interracial marriages in Maryland Public Health Reports Volume 85, Number 8 (August 1970) pages 739-747 Sidney M. Norton, Director of the Bureau of Vital Records Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, Maryland Also Lecturer, Department of Chronic Diseases School of Hygiene and Public Health Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland A Statistical Report Nullification of all miscegenation…

  • One Drop of Love: Finding the Love in the One-drop Rule through Documentary Storytelling and Performance California State University, Los Angeles May 2013 84 pages Fanshen DiGiovanni A Project Report Presented to The Faculties of the Departments of Television, Film & Media Studies, and Music, Theatre & Dance In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for…

  • Rev. Dr. Talmage preached a patriotic sermon yesterday morning. His subject was: “Should America, be Reserved for Americans?” and he answered it in the most anti-Know Nothing style. A very large audience listened. The text was: “And hath made of one blood all nation.” The preacher spoke in part as follows:

  • Film Review: Multiracial Identity Teaching Sociology Volume 41, Number 4 (October 2013) pages 397-399 DOI: 10.1177/0092055X13496205 Sara McDonough Department of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Multiracial Identity. 77 minutes. 2010. Brian Chinhema , director. Bullfrog Films. PO Box 149, Oley, PA…

  • An Inconvenient Truth: “Hispanic” is an ethnic origin, not a “race” National Institute for Latino Policy, Inc. 2013-08-24 Nancy López, Guest Commentator and Associate Professor of Sociology University of New Mexico Kenneth Prewitt’s provocative August 21st New York Times commentary calls us to “fix the census archaic racial categories.” He contends that the current national…