Category: Census/Demographics

  • True Londoners Are Extinct The New York Times 2012-03-01 Craig Taylor Photo by Mark Neville. Children come to the Somerford Grove Adventure Playground in Tottenham, shown here, after school or on weekends to learn life skills like cooking. “There’s a real sense of adulthood to what the children are doing there,” Neville said. Later this…

  • TIME to Think in Full Color About Race & Ethnicity Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D. 2012-02-25 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University TIME Magazine’s latest cover story (Feb. 2/24) is called “Yo Decido. Why Latinos will pick the next President.” It reports that about 9% of all voters in 2012 will be Latino, up 26%…

  • Batson Revisited in America’s “New Era” of Multiracial Persons Seton Hall Law Review Volume 33, Issue 1 (2003) Article 3 pages 67-108 John Terrence A. Rosenthal Since two bloods course within your veins, Both Jam’s and Japhet’s intermingling; One race forever doomed to serve, The other bearing freedom’s likeness. —Poem from Jacob Steendam to his…

  • Interracial Love Is No Societal Cure-All truthdig 2012-02-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University A recently released report by the Pew Center is a belated Valentine’s Day gift to interracial families. The report indicates that intermarriage across racial and ethnic lines continues to be on the rise in the U.S. and the change is…

  •  The Rise of Intermarriage: Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender Pew Social and Demographic Trends Pew Research Center Washington, DC 2012-02-16 56 pages Wendy Wang, Research Associate Note from Steven F. Riley: The Pew Social and Demographic Trends data is report from 2010-06-04 for the year 2008, titled “Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is…

  • Intermarriage rates soar as stereotypes fall The Washington Post 2012-02-16 Carol Morello Virginia leads the nation in the percentage of marriages between blacks and whites, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows, barely four decades after state laws criminalizing interracial marriage were struck down by the Supreme Court. And one in five new…

  • Interracial marriage in US hits new high: 1 in 12 The Miami Herald 2012-02-16 Hope Yen, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million—a record 1 in 12—as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely…

  • The Real American Love Story: Why America is a lot less white than it looks Slate 1999-10-05 Brent Staples The PBS broadcast last month of An American Love Story—a 10-hour film about an interracial family—spawned a great deal of chatter to the effect that mixed-race couplings were the wave of the future. In fact, they…

  • Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Number 8, August 2012 pages 1466-1483 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607503 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor…

  • Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama The Greenlining Institute Berkeley, California November 2011 26 pages Dr. Daniel Byrd, Research Director Bruce Mirken, Media Relations Coordinator Since the election of Barack Obama as the United States’ first African American president, there has been much discussion of whether this means the U.S. has become…