Category: Census/Demographics

  • BLACK, TRIGUEÑO, WHITE…? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 2 (2005) pages 267-285 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050186 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The use of U.S.-oriented racial categories in the 2000 decennial census conducted by…

  • “Which box am I?”: Towards a Culturally Grounded, Contextually Meaningful Method of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in Puerto Rico Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey August 2009 59 pages Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College,…

  • More children identify as ‘biracial’: just a choice or a good thing? The Washington Post 2012-04-26 Mary C. Curtis It’s been happening for a while — census data show it. The number of mixed-race babies has quickly grown in the last decade, a trend that’s no surprise in an increasingly diverse country. Men and women…

  • Number of biracial babies soars over past decade The Washington Post 2012-04-26 Carol Morello, Demographics Reporter The number of mixed-race babies has soared over the past decade, new census data show, a result of more interracial couples and a cultural shift in how many parents identify their children in a multiracial society. More than 7…

  • 2010 Census Shows Interracial and Interethnic Married Couples Grew by 28 Percent over Decade United States Census Bureau Newsroom 2012-04-25 The U.S. Census Bureau today released a 2010 Census brief, Households and Families: 2010, that showed interracial or interethnic opposite-sex married couple households grew by 28 percent over the decade from 7 percent in 2000…

  • Racial/Ethnic Variation in Parenting Styles: The Experience of Multiracial Adolescents Bowling Green State University December 2011 57 pages Amanda N. House According to the 2009 American Community Survey, 2.4% of the U.S. population consists of individuals who identify as two or more races, or multiracial. Nearly half of this estimate captures children under the age…

  • Growing Diversity Among America’s Children and Youth: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions Population and Development Review Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2010 pages 151–176 DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2010.00322.x Kenneth M. Johnson, Professor of Sociology and Senior Demographer Department of Sociology and Carsey Institute University of New Hampshire, Durham Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and…

  • Criollo, Mestizo, Mulato, LatiNegro, Indígena, White, or Black? The US Hispanic/Latino Population and Multiple Responses in the 2000 Census American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1724-1727 Hortensia Amaro, Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences and of Counseling Psychology Bouve College of Health Sciences Northeastern University Ruth E. Zambrana, Profesor of Womens…

  • Invisible citizens? IDB America: Magazine of Inter-American Development Bank August 2001 Charo Quesada Censuses in many Latin American countries omit questions about race, rendering minority groups statistically invisible If we relied entirely on censuses to understand what the people of Latin America and the Caribbean look like, the picture that would emerge would be a…

  • Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn, Germany Discussion Paper No. 6196 December 2011 34 pages Pierre-André Chiappori, E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics Columbia University Sonia Oreffice, Assistant Professor of Economics Universitat d’Alacant and IZA Climent Quintana-Domeque, Assistant Professor of Economics Universitat d’Alacant…