Category: Census/Demographics

  • Capturing complexity in the United States: which aspects of race matter and when? Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 8, 2012 Special Issue:Accounting for ethnic and racial diversity: the challenge of enumeration pages 1484-1502 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607504 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University The experience of race in the United States is shaped…

  • Census to Change Categories on Race The Associated Press 2012-08-09 The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would drop use of the term “Negro,” leaving a choice of “black” or “African-American.” It would count Hispanics as separate from blacks and whites.…

  • Ward Connerly, who describes himself as a roughly equal mix of French Canadian, Choctaw, African and Irish ancestry and who is married to a white woman, spent much of the last decade campaigning to end race-based affirmative action. Susan Graham, a white woman married to a black man, has spent that same decade working tirelessly…

  • New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary A Work-In-Progress Documentary Eli Steele, Producer With more Americans marrying across the color line today than before, it is inevitable that the racial makeup of America’s face will forever change. Of the nine million individuals that identified themselves as multiracial on the 2010 census, more than 50…

  • Meet Steve Riley—Creator of Mixed Race Studies Mixed Race Radio Wednesday, 2012-07-18, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT, 17:00 BST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Join us as we meet Steven Riley, creator of MixedRaceStudies.org which is a non-commercial website that provides a gateway to contemporary interdisciplinary English language scholarship about the relevant issues surrounding the topic of…

  • Beyond Black and White: Color and Mortality in Post Reconstruction Era North Carolina Explorations in Economic History Published online: 2012-07-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2012.06.002 Tiffany L. Green, Postdoctoral Fellow Health Disparities Research Scholars Training Program Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin, Madison Tod G. Hamilton, Research Fellow Department of Society, Human Development, and Health School…

  • There were 784,764 U.S. residents who described their race as white and black in the last census. But that number didn’t include Laura Martin, whose father is black and mother is white. “I’ve always just checked black on my form,” said Martin, a 29-year-old university employee in Las Vegas. She grew up surrounded by black…

  • The author presents a comparative analysis of the histories of racial/color categorization in American and Brazilian censuses and shows that racial (and color) categories have appeared in these censuses because of shifting ideas about race and the enduring power of these ideas as organizers of political, economic, and social life in both countries.

  • The creation and intepretation of ‘mixed’ categories in Britain today darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture ISSN 2041-3254 Post-Racial Imaginaries [9.1] (2012-07-02) Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent The growth and recognition of ‘Mixed’ in Britain It is difficult to imagine a society (such as Britain) in which ethnic and racial categories,…

  • Browner America: Marcia Alesan Dawkins says an increase in nonwhite births doesn’t mean more social justice.