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  • Creating a “Latino” Race

    Creating a “Latino” Race The Society Pages: Social Science That Matters 2013-03-13 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia (Author of Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race) Editors’ Note: The author prefers to capitalize Black and White along with other socially constructed racial categories. For much of American…

  • Young Afro Latinos straddle both cultures

    Young Afro Latinos straddle both cultures Our Weekly: Our Truth, Our Voice Los Angeles, California 2010-09-23 Manny Otiko Hispanic heritage month celebrated Sept. 15-Oct. 15 When 2nd Lt. Emily Perez was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, she became the first female African American officer to die in combat. Perez, an outstanding West Point…

  • Statehood Issue Stirs Passions About Puerto Rican Identity

    Statehood Issue Stirs Passions About Puerto Rican Identity Puerto Rico: Unsettled Territory Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Arizona State University 2012-10-29 Kailey Latham Cronkite Borderlands Initiative SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — What does it mean to be Puerto Rican? For over 500 years, the people of this island have struggled with the…

  • Decline In U.S. Whites, Rise Of Latinos Blurring Traditional Racial Lines

    Decline In U.S. Whites, Rise Of Latinos Blurring Traditional Racial Lines The Huffington Post 2013-03-17 Hope Yen The Associated Press Associated Press writers Elaine Ganley in Montfermeil, France, Jenny Barchfield in Rio de Janeiro and Michelle Rindels in Las Vegas contributed to this report. WASHINGTON — Welcome to the new off-white America. A historic decline…

  • (Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand: framing biculturalism and ‘mixed race’ through categorisation

    (Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand: framing biculturalism and ‘mixed race’ through categorisation Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online Volume 7, Issue 1, (May 2012) DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2012.670650 pages 1-13 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore This paper explores racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the impacts of…

  • Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up

    Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-04-08 Steven F. Riley Gregory Rodriguez’s editorial titled “President Obama: Black and more so” or “President Obama: At odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride” in the April 4, 2011 edition of the Los Angeles Times reveals the destructive hubris…

  • President Obama: Black and more so

    President Obama: Black and more so Los Angeles Times 2011-04-04 Gregory Rodriguez By checking ‘black’ as his race on the census form, President Obama is at odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride. The number of Americans identifying as both white and black jumped 134% in 10 years. It could have been a historic…

  • Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future

    Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future Demography Published online: 2013-02-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0197-1 Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology Cornell University Over the next generation or two, America’s older, largely white population will increasingly be replaced by today’s disproportionately poor minority children. All future growth will come from…

  • Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks ‘Black’

    Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks ‘Black’ The New York Times 2010-04-02 Sam Roberts Peter Baker It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. A White House spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010…

  • At school I was called a half-caste. Today I’m proud: As census reveals over a million Britons were born to inter-racial relationships, one woman’s moving story

    At school I was called a half-caste. Today I’m proud: As census reveals over a million Britons were born to inter-racial relationships, one woman’s moving story The Daily Mail 2012-12-11 Tanith Carey Whenever the moment comes when I have to choose the box on the Census that asks me to describe my national identity, my…