Category: Census/Demographics

  • More metro Atlantans say they’re multiracial: Fast-growing segment represents a cultural shift that’s nationwide Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2011-09-03 Bo Emerson When Evelyn Brown-Wilder was growing up in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the 1950s, life was a matter of warring opposites. Though some of her ancestors were white and her face was pale, the law said she was…

  • Professor: Racial categorization remains necessary in Census Medill Washington Medill News Service Medill School, Northwestern University 2011-08-08 Angie Chung WASHINGTON—Does where we come from tell us whom we are? Why do we come in different colors? Does skin color equal race?   Talking about racial issues can be a never-ending discussion. It’s complicated. The Census…

  • Mixed Race Britain – Introduction BBC Press Office: Press Packs 2011-09-05 Mixed Race Britain is put under the spotlight this September on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but a hundred years ago people of mixed race…

  • Emory and CNN Launch Public Dialogue Series The Emory Wheel 2011-09-02 Amanda Serfozo Emory University hosted an inaugural event in partnership with CNN on Wednesday evening that aims to facilitate discourse related to the results of the 2010 Census and its reflection of new population trends in America.   CNN Dialogues—an ongoing colloquium with panels…

  • Summer Blend Book Club Wraps Up Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-08-25 Michel Martin, Host This series began in June with the help of Heidi Durrow, author and co-founder of the “Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival.” All summer long, Tell Me More has been covering books about the multicultural experience in America. Durrow…

  • Race in Brazil: Out of Eden The Economist 2003-07-03 Brazil used to think it could be colour-blind. Alas, no longer JOANA, an actress and student, is white, or at least that is what her birth certificate says. She has a white father, a mixed-race mother and skin the colour of cappuccino. But she considers herself…

  • 20 years after riots, Crown Heights is now a mixed racial haven New York Daily News 2011-08-14 Simone Weichselbaum, Staff Writer Crown Heights has become a mixed race mecca. The Brooklyn neighborhood infamous for the 1991 riot between blacks and Jews has the second-most residents who identify as being both black and white, the latest…

  • Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Volume 140, Number 2, Spring 2011, Race, Inequality & Culture, Volume 2 pages 11-36 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University In…

  • Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation Center on Race & Social Problems School of Social Work The University of Pittsburgh 2010 29 pages Editors: Larry E. Davis, Dean and Donald M. Henderson Professor of Social Work and Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems University of Pittsburgh Ralph Bangs, Associate Director…

  • The Stakes of Race, Color, & Belonging Thursday Afternoon Forum Series University of California, Berkeley Center for Race and Gender 691 Barrows Thursday, 2011-09-29, 16:00-17:30 PDT (Local Time) Skin Tone Stratification Among Black Americans, 2001-2003 Ellis Monk Jr., Sociology “I’m Mixed and Mixed”: Narrating Identities of Individuals with Mexican and Other Ancestries Jessie Turner, Ethnic…