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Category: Census/Demographics

  • 100% Multiracial

    100% Multiracial UrbanFaith.com 2010-06-11 Kyle Waalen The latest Census estimates show that multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. Yet many still struggle with the question of how many boxes to check. Two Christian women share about the tension and joy of being young and multiracial in America. Kristy McDonald…

  • Diversity on a Personal Level: A First Look at Multiple Race Population

    Diversity on a Personal Level: A First Look at Multiple Race Population Indiana Business Review Summer 2001 pages 6-7 John Besl, Research Demographer Indiana Business Research Center, Kelley School of Business Indiana University For many decades, census data have provided a look at racial diversity in our nation’s communities. But Census 2000 offers a truly…

  • Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940

    Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte Published online 2010-08-03 DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201001471 Raúl Necochea López McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940. The demographers who organized the 1940 census of Peru portrayed the increasingly mixed-race Peruvian population as indicative of the breaking down…

  • The Geography of a Mixed-Race Society

    The Geography of a Mixed-Race Society Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban And Regional Policy Volume 40, Issue 4 (December 2009) Pages 565 – 593 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2009.00501.x William A. V. Clark, Professor of Geography University of California, Los Angeles Reagan Maas University of California, Los Angeles The pattern and level of separation among ethnic…

  • White Americans, The New Minority? Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness

    White Americans, The New Minority? Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness Jonathan W. Warren, Associate Professor of International and Latin American Studies University of Washington France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Journal of Black Studies Volume 28, Number 2 (November 1997) pages 200-218 Argues that in the United States…

  • Multiracial Identity [Movie] to be screened at the Portland, Maine International Film Festival

    Multiracial Identity [Movie] to be screened at the  Portland, Maine International Film Festival Portland, Maine International Film Festival Saturday, 2010-08-21, 12:00 – 13:30 EDT (Local Time) Space Gallery 538 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101 Phone: 207.828.5600 Year: 2010 Director: Brian Chinhema Writer: Brian Chinhema Producer: Brian Chinhema (Abacus Production) Running Time: 01:22:00 Multiracial people are the fastest…

  • The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the US Population: Emerging American Identities

    The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the US Population: Emerging American Identities Population and Development Review Volume 35, Issue 1 (March 2009) pages 1-51 DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00260.x Anthony Daniel Perez, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in…

  • Unmixing for Race Making in Brazil

    This article analyzes race-targeted policy in Brazil as both a political stake and a powerful instrument in an unfolding classificatory struggle over the definition of racial boundaries.

  • Looking in the Cultural Mirror: How understanding race and culture helps us answer the question: “Who am I?”

    Looking in the Cultural Mirror: How understanding race and culture helps us answer the question: “Who am I?” Psychology Today 2010-07-06 Jefferson M. Fish, Ph.D. The Census and Race—Part I–Key Issues: What can science tell us about the census’s race questions? (2010-07-06) The 2010 Census is well on its way to completion. Its controversial questions…

  • President Obama checks the “Black” box; Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.

    President Obama checks the “Black” box Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. Psychology Today 2010-04-04 Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Co-Founder Pathways Institute for Impulse Control, San Francisco This week, the New York Times reported that “It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.”…