Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Category: Census/Demographics

To fight discrimination, the U.S. census needs a different race question

2020-03-10

The government has asked people their race since 1790
The changing categories the U.S. census has used to measure race

2020-02-27

Racial categories, which have been included on every U.S. census since the first one in 1790, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
Why Some Black Puerto Ricans Choose ‘White’ on the Census

2020-02-10

The island has a long history of encouraging residents to identify as white, but there are growing efforts to raise awareness about racism.
The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification

2020-01-31

This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world.
Who is Hispanic?

2019-12-02

So, who is considered Hispanic in the United States? And how are they counted in public opinion surveys, voter exit polls and government surveys like the upcoming 2020 census?
Mixed-Race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present, and Future

2019-12-02

Contributing to an emerging literature on mixed-race people in the United States and United Kingdom, this book draws on racial formation theory and the performativity (i.e. “doing”) of race to explore the social construction of mixedness on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Rise of Mixed Parentage: A Sociological and Demographic Phenomenon to Be Reckoned With

2019-12-01

An implication of this analysis is that census classification practices for mixed individuals risk distorting conceptions of the current population, especially its youthful portion, and promoting misunderstandings of ethno-racial change.
Establishing the Denominator: The Challenges of Measuring Multiracial, Hispanic, and Native American Populations

2019-12-01

I argue that for analytic purposes, racial/ethnic self-identification should continue to be treated as a statistical numerator, but that the challenge is for researchers to establish the correct denominator—the population that could identify as members of the group based on their ancestry.
UAH professor publishes new book on mixed-race at home and abroad

2019-11-22

Dr. Jennifer Patrice Sims, Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) recently published her second book
New Evidence of Skin Color Bias and Health Outcomes Using Sibling Difference Models: A Research Note

2019-10-26

These results add to the extant evidence on color biases that are distinct from those based on race alone and that will likely only heighten in importance in an increasingly multiracial environment as categorization becomes more complex.

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