Category: Census/Demographics

  • More Iowans identifying as mixed race The Daily Iowan The Independent Daily Newspaper for the University of Iowa Since 1868 2011-04-19 Alison Sullivan Photo: Christy Aumer/The Daily IowanSophomore Tevin Robbins poses in the window of the second floor at the Afro-American Cultural Center on April 5. Robbins is currently majoring in psychology but has switched…

  • PBS series explores black culture in Latin America 2011-04-18 Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI—On a street in a seaside city in Brazil, four men describe themselves to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black. Flabbergasted, the Harvard scholar insists they compare their skin tones with his. In a jumble, their forearms form a mocha spectrum. Oh,…

  • Brazil’s census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves The Guardian 2010-08-25 Tom Phillip Interviewers plan to reach 190m people, including the long-ignored Kalunga, by motorbike, plane, canoe and donkey When Jorge Moreira de Oliveira’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather arrived in Brazil in the 18th century he was counted off the slave-ship, branded and dispatched to…

  • Multiracial populations of U.S. cities CNN April 2011 The number of people who say they belong to at least two races increased by 32% between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Search the table below to see how the population has changed in cities and towns [3,876] with more than 10,000 people.…

  • More Minnesotans say they’re multiracial in 2010 Census TwinCities.com: Pioneer Press 2011-04-17 Richard Chin and MaryJo Webster Maybe it’s hip to be mixed. That could be one explanation for Minnesota’s 51 percent increase over the past decade in the number of people who say they are multiracial, substantially higher than the national increase. According to…

  • Afro-Saxon psychosis or cultural schizophrenia in African-Caribbeans? The Psychiatrist Volume 24, Issue 3 (2000) pages 96-97 DOI: 10.1192/pb.24.3.96 Hari D. Maharajh, Psychiatric Hospital Director St Ann’s Hospital, Trinidad, West Indies “Everybody in Miguel Street said that Man-man was mad, and so they left him alone, but I am not sure now that he was mad…

  • For some, question of race a struggle The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2011-04-05 Karen Lee Ziner, Journal Staff Writer Face to face with the question of racial identity, Providence lawyer Kas R. DeCarvalho chose a write-in option under “Other” in the 2010 census form. “I put in mixed and called it a day,” said…

  • Census Says There Are More Biracial People, But That Depends On Your Definition of Mixed The Black Snob 2011-04-07 Danielle C. Belton Since 2000, the population of biracial and multiracial people has boomed by 50 percent according to 2010 Census data. The New York Times recently ran a story saying that because of changes in…

  • America’s Diverse Future: Initial Glimpses at the U.S. Child Population from the 2010 Census Brookings State of Metropolitan American Number 29 (2011-04-06) 14 pages William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program For some time, Americans have been aware that “new minorities”—particularly Hispanics, Asians, and people of more than one race—are becoming a more important…

  • Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial The Daily Texan University of Texas, Austin 2011-04-01 Shamoyita DasGupta, Daily Texan Staff More Americans than ever before identify as multiracial, according to the 2010 census.   Of the 9 million people who listed themselves as more than one race, 4.2 million are children. The percentage rose…