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  • New Demographic Perspectives on Studying Intermarriage in the United States

    New Demographic Perspectives on Studying Intermarriage in the United States Contemporary Jewry Published Online: May 2013 pages 1-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12397-013-9103-9 Bruce A. Phillips, Professor of Jewish Communal Service Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles The study of Jewish intermarriage has largely ignored the measurement conventions prevalent in the field of demography such as…

  • Double-Checking the Race Box: Examining Inconsistency between Survey Measures of Observed and Self-Reported Race

    Double-Checking the Race Box: Examining Inconsistency between Survey Measures of Observed and Self-Reported Race Social Forces Volume 85, Issue 1 pages 57-74 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2006.0141 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Social constructivist theories of race suggest no two measures of race will capture the same information, but the degree of “error” this creates…

  • In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites

    In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites Associated Press 2013-04-29 Hope Yen WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama…

  • ‘Improving’ the Māori: Counting the Ideology of Intermarriage

    ‘Improving’ the Māori: Counting the Ideology of Intermarriage New Zealand Journal of History Volume 34, Number 1 (2000) pages 80-97 Kate Riddell Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington IN 1996 THE CENSUS gave a total of 3,681,546 New Zealanders, of whom 524,031 were self-described as Māori or of Māori descent — thus, around 14%. The 1896 census gave…

  • Results from the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment

    Results from the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment U.S. Census Bureau Technical Briefing 2012-08-08 62 pages What is the AQE? The 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) focused on improving the race and Hispanic origin questions by testing a number of different questionnaire design strategies… Overview of…

  • JANM Show Looks at Mixed Ancestry

    JANM Show Looks at Mixed Ancestry Los Angeles Downtown News 2013-04-15 Richard Guzmán DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – The very title of the new Japanese American National Museum exhibit indicates the complex factors at play in a single community. The show, Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History, examines the diverse history of the Japanese…

  • The New Normal

    The New Normal The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-04-11 Mia Nakaji Monnier, Rafu Staff Writer Hapa Japan Festival and JANM exhibit celebrate mixed Japanese and Japanese Americans Outside the newest exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum hangs a banner. Up close, visitors can make out individual pictures—each about the size of…

  • The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians

    The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Center for Latin American Studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 2012 pages 30-32 Jean Spencer, Outreach and Publications Coordinator Center for Latin American Studies Is Brazil really a racial democracy? The idea of racial democracy, originally put forth by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto…

  • Performing ‘Race’ and Challenging Racism

    Performing ‘Race’ and Challenging Racism One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for her Father’s Racial Approval Blog Updates 2013-04-08 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator It is an exciting time to be an actor, when the notion of ‘performance’ is taking on new meanings and has the potential to change the way we…

  • TEDxNorthwesternU – Rick Kittles – The Biology of Race in the Absence of Biological Races

    TEDxNorthwesternU – Rick Kittles – The Biology of Race in the Absence of Biological Races TEDxTalks 2011-01-25 Rick Kittles, Professor of Medicine University of Illinois, Chicago College of Medicine Defining “race” continues to be a nemesis. Knowledge from human genetic research is increasingly challenging the notion that race and biology are inextricably linked, engendering tremendous…