Category: Census/Demographics

  • Interracial Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations September 2012 Michael J. Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Sociology Stanford University Intermarriage has been rising in the United States steadily since about 1960. Before 1960 there were so few interracial marriages in the United States that Interraciality was really invisible. Prior to 1960, the idea of…

  • The Lure of Whiteness and the Politics of “Otherness”: Mexican American Racial Identity University of Texas, Austin 2004 185 pages Julie Anne Dowling Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the The University of Texas at Austin In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Using a…

  • The United States Census in Its Relations to Sanitation Public Health Paper Report Volume 15 (1889) pages 43-46 John S. Billings, Surgeon, U.S.A. (1838-1913) I have several times inflicted upon this patient and long-suffering Association papers relating to statistical matters and methods, which, it must be confessed, were better fitted to serve for occasional reference than to occupy…

  • Latinos may get own race category on census form The Seattle Times 2012-08-30 Lornet Turnbull, Staff Reporter Under proposed changes under consideration by the Census Bureau in its once-a-decade census forms, Latino and Hispanic would be added to the list of government-defined races, rather than being listed separately as an ethnicity. And people from the…

  • Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860 University of New Orleans 2010-05-14 58 pages Frank Joseph Lovato A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History…

  • People Can Claim One or More Races On Federal Forms The New York Times 1997-10-30 Steven A. Holmes The Clinton Administration today adopted new rules for listing racial and ethnic makeup on Federal forms, allowing people for the first time to identify themselves as members of more than one race. The change, which could affect…

  • Racial classifications in the US census: 1890–1990 Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 16, Issue 1 (1993) pages 75-94 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.1993.9993773 Sharon M. Lee, Adjunct Professor of Sociology University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada This article examines racial classifications on United States population census schedules between 1890 and 1990 to provide insights on the changing…

  • American Indians in Chicago struggle to preserve identity, culture and history Chicago Tribune 2012-08-13 Dahleen Glanton, Reporter Recession, social service funding cuts hinder efforts Susan Kelly Power was 17 when she boarded a train to Chicago, a place that seemed a world away from the Indian reservation she grew up on in North and South…

  • Time to drop racial categories in census The Chicago Tribune 2012-08-16 Arthur Caplan, Director of Division of Medical Ethics Department of Population Health New York University The U.S. Census Bureau announced that it wants to make a number of changes in how it counts membership in a race. The change is based on an experiment…

  • Susan Graham Discusses Project RACE Mixed Race Radio 2012-08-15, 17:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Susan Graham, Executive Director Project RACE Project RACE (Reclassify All Children Equally) members are the national advocates for multiracial children, teens, adults, and our families. Project RACE was started in 1990, so we are in our 22nd…