Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Census/Demographics
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EXCLUSIVE! MASC Analysis of Census 2020: Latinos Make Up A Majority of the Multiracial Population Multiracial Americans of Southern California 2021-08-23 The recent release of Census 2020 demographic data has enabled us to envision a new version of the country we live in. The following charts and discussion have been prepared to tell a story…
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Some news coverage of the latest 2020 census results may have led you to think the white population in the U.S. is shrinking or in decline.
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The dramatic shift in racial identity among Latinos came after the census offered more options in 2020, giving Latinos the opportunity to officially embrace Indigenous and Black backgrounds.
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New numbers provide a reminder of the fluidity of American identity.
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The Multiracial population was measured at 9 million people in 2010 and is now 33.8 million people in 2020, a 276% increase.
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Hundreds of thousands, according to a new study of Census data. Doing so provided some economic benefits but came at a great personal cost.
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Don’t let the politics of BLM define mixed-race Americans The New York Daily News 2021-06-19 Charles Byrd Mixed-race Americans (Shutterstock/Shutterstock) Prior to June 12, 1967, anti-miscegenation laws still existed in the southern United States. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned those remaining statutes of segregationist race-consciousness with its landmark “Loving v. Virginia” decision. That case did…