Category: Census/Demographics

  • More Hawaii residents identify as mixed race USA Today 2011-02-24 William M. Welch Hawaii, the nation’s most ethnically diverse state, has seen a big increase in residents identifying themselves as being of mixed race, according to Census data released Thursday. Among adults 18 and older, those saying they are of two or more races rose…

  • The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census No. 96-370 Population Studies Center Research Report Series Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan August 1996 Yu Xie, Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology University of Michigan Kimberly A. Goyette, Associate Professor of Sociology Temple University…

  • The President, the Census and the Multiracial “Community” Open Salon 2011-02-20 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. What is the connection between Obama, the 2010 U.S. Census and multiracials?  Not as much as some may think. While it is tempting to look to Obama as a mixed race icon and to see the Census as publicly acknowledging…

  • Mixed race students, interracial couples become norm as US diversifies The Flor-Ala (Student newspaper of the University of North Alabama) Florence, Alabama 2011-02-10 Lucy Berry, News Editor When some people see UNA students Lauren Kirby and DeForrest Brown together in public, one of the first things they notice about the couple are their racial differences.…

  • The Coming MiscegeNation? TruthDig 2011-02-13 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University It’s official. We’re a “miscegeNation.” The 2010 Census results are reminding us that multiracialism is not only our destiny but our reality. We’re seeing the rise of the most diverse cohort of youth in the nation’s history with a record low white population—the…

  • Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas University of Illinois Press 2004 344 pages 6 x 9.25 in.  Illustrations: 25 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02939-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07194-2 Edited by David Barry Gaspar, Professor of History Duke University Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History Northwestern University Black…

  • Counting by Race Can Throw Off Some Numbers The New York Times 2009-02-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Race Remixed: The Pigeonhole Problem. Articles in this series explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans. The federal Department of Education would categorize Michelle López-Mullins—a university student who is of Peruvian, Chinese, Irish, Shawnee and Cherokee descent—as “Hispanic.”…

  • Where the interracials may take us Los Angeles Times 2010-09-21 Eli Steele Of all Americans, they represent the best opportunity to end identity politics and point America back to its tradition of individualism. We may be in the midst of an interracial baby boom. A recent Pew Research Center study reported that interracial marriages rose…

  • This is who I am: Defining mixed-race identity The Seattle Times 2008-09-28 Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times staff The story of race in the U.S. is changing, and so is the way many of us identify ourselves. That’s especially true in the Seattle area, which has a higher concentration of mixed-race people than any other metro…

  • US, MSU see increase in multiracial students The State News East Lansing, Michigan 2011-02-02 Emily Wilkins They call her “blackbean” – half black, half Mexican. It’s a nickname embraced by Lynette Davidson, a political theory and constitutional democracy and communication sophomore and one of the 710 students at MSU who identifies with two or more…