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  • Geographies of racially mixed people and households: A focus on American Indians

    Geographies of racially mixed people and households: A focus on American Indians Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 23 pages Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota Meghan Zacher Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota March 2010 Multiracial individuals and…

  • Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black.

    Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black. The New Republic 2010-04-07 John Judis, Senior Editor and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace When asked about his race on the census form, Barack Obama, the child of a white Kansan and black African, did not take the option of checking both “white” and…

  • Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census: Recommendations for African American and Other Black Populations in the United States

    Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census: Recommendations for African American and Other Black Populations in the United States Amercan Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1728-1730 David R. Williams, Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health and of African and African American Studies Harvard University James S. Jackson, Daniel Katz…

  • Erasure and Recognition: The Census, Race and the National Imagination

    This Article is concerned with the constitutive power of the census with respect to race. It is an examination of the U.S. Census as an aspect of what Angela Harris calls race law, “law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial groups, as well as the law regulating the relationships among these groups.”…

  • Obama’s census mark reveals race views

    Obama’s census mark reveals race views The Washington Times 2010-04-30 Joseph Curl America’s first black president has deliberately shied away from spurring a national discussion on race, most recently by checking only “African-American” on his U.S. census form without offering a word of explanation about his choice. The studied silence from the bully pulpit held…

  • Stop the finger-wagging about Obama’s Census form

    Stop the finger-wagging about Obama’s Census form The Washington Post 2010-04-29 Kevin Huffman It’s tough being president. In the last year, pretty much every constituency has expressed disappointment in some facet of Barack Obama’s work or play. Now, apparently, the president is even letting down biracial children with his choice of Census categories. Elizabeth Chang…

  • Why Obama should not have checked ‘black’ on his census form

    Why Obama should not have checked ‘black’ on his census form The Washington Post 2010-04-29 Elizabeth Chang, Sunday Magazine Editor I have always considered Barack Obama to be biracial, and I had hoped that his election would help our country move beyond the tired concept of race. Unfortunately, the president is not getting with my…

  • Choosing Choosing Racial Sides: Part Two… A Different Perspective

    Choosing Racial Sides: Part Two… A Different Perspective USARiseUp.com 2010-02-20 Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa Contrary to popular opinion, the way mixed-race people look is not the primary influence that determines what part of their heritage they identify with, according to Seattle clinical psychologist and independent scholar Dr. Maria P. P. Root. She says a host of other…

  • Chosing Racial Sides… American Society Forces Its Children To Make Tough Choices

    Chosing Racial Sides… American Society Forces Its Children To Make Tough Choices USARiseUp.com 2010-02-20 Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa When Jolanda Williams looks in a mirror, the image she sees is a warm peach complexion framed in dark silky hair, high cheekbones beneath almond eyes, and full lips that slip into an easy, radiant smile. She has a…

  • Mixed: Reflections on Race

    Mixed: Reflections on Race Mamapedia Mamapedia Voices 2010-03-30 Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Mom Wisdom comes in many forms. Mamapedia Voices proudly showcases useful and insightful posts by selected writers, from up-and-coming mom bloggers to well-known mom experts. I could be anywhere, picking up some innocuous bureaucratic form…