Mixed Race Studies

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  • Where Black-White Couples Live

    Where Black-White Couples Live Urban Geography Volume 32, Number 1 (2011-01-01 through 2011-02-14) pages 1-22 DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.32.1.1 Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Steven Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia This study analyzes where households headed by Black-White, mixed-race couples live in cities. Using 2000…

  • The Law of the Census: How to Count, What to Count, Whom to Count, and Where to Count Them

    The Law of the Census: How to Count, What to Count, Whom to Count, and Where to Count Them Cardozo Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (2011) pages 756-791 Nathaniel Persily, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science Columbia Law School The 2010 Census, like its predecessors, represented a momentous logistical…

  • Review of Spencer, Jon Michael, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America

    Review of Spencer, Jon Michael, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America H-Net Reviews January 1998 Richard L. Hughes The Census, Race, and… Amid a racial climate which includes a presidential advisory board on race and a discussion of slavery within the popular media, there lies an increasingly prominent dialogue on race in…

  • Mixed race, mixed emotions

    Mixed race, mixed emotions The Arizona Republic 2005-05-13 Janie Magruder Multiracial children face challenges of identity, community Aaron Foster was 3 years old the first time the question came. “What are you?” asked the barber, out of earshot of his mother. “I’m a boy,” Aaron replied, bewildered. “No, what are you? Black? Chinese?” “I do…

  • Changing Family Structures in America [Project Description]

    Changing Family Structures in America [Project Description] US 2010: Discover America in a New Century 2010 Zhenchao Qian, Professor of Sociology Ohio State University The US 2010 research project examines changes in American societ in the recent past.  Directed by sociologist John Logan, US 2010 is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and Brown University. Qian…

  • Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage in the United States [Interview with Daniel T. Lichter]

    Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage in the United States [Interview with Daniel T. Lichter] Population Reference Bureau 2010-05-20 Questions and Answers with: Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology Cornell University Donghui Yu: Could you please tell us some features of Asian American(partucularly Chinese American)’s intermarriage with other race? Thanks. Daniel T.…

  • Racial Identity’s Gray Area

    Racial Identity’s Gray Area The Wall Street Journal 2008-06-12 June Kronholz The Definition of Whiteness Continues to Shift When Barack Obama, whose mother was white, identifies himself as black, and when Bill Richardson, whose father was white, identifies himself as Hispanic, who is white? The U.S. Census Bureau says the country will be majority-minority in…

  • Passage to identity is still a struggle

    Passage to identity is still a struggle Kansas City Star 2010-12-17 Commentary by: Jeneé Osterheldt I’ve always known I wasn’t white like my mama. Even as a little girl, I could feel adults stare as we passed by. I was different. But was I black like my daddy? It took me much of my young…

  • Color outside the lines

    Color outside the lines Columbia Missourian 2006-06-11 Sara Fernández Cendon The boundaries between traditional racial categories shift as more people identify themselves as multiracial. The term adds another dimension to the complex issue of race in America. Some say Tiger Woods started it all. After winning the Masters Tournament in 1997, the golf star described…

  • UK in 2051 to be ‘significantly more diverse’

    UK in 2051 to be ‘significantly more diverse’ University of Leeds 2010-07-13 The ethnic makeup of the UK will change dramatically over the next 40 years, with the country becoming far more ethnically diverse and geographically integrated, according to new projections. In a report published this week, researchers from the University of Leeds predict that…