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  • For some, question #9 is number one

    For some, question #9 is number one Nguoi Viet 2 Online 2010-04-02 Denise L. Poon LASpot.Us When she fills out her 2010 Census form, Mei-Ling Malone is looking forward to answering Question #9 “the race question.” She’s adamant about documenting her multiracial background. Malone, who studied multiracial politics at UC Irvine and is now pursuing…

  • A portrait of couples in mixed unions

    A portrait of couples in mixed unions Component of Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11-008-X Canadian Social Trends 2010-04-20 pages 68-80 Anne Milan, Senior Analyst Demography Division Hélène Maheux, Analyst Immigration and Ethnocultural Section Tina Chui, Chief Immigration and Ethnocultural Section in the Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division As Canada‘s population continues to become ethnoculturally diverse,…

  • Canada’s mixing pot: Multiracial relationships growing at rapid pace

    Canada’s mixing pot: Multiracial relationships growing at rapid pace National Post 2010-04-20 Mary Vallis The number of Canadians in mixed-race relationships and marriages is rising, still primarily a big city phenomenon, but a trend fuelled in part by romances in small cities, according to a new report released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday. Between 2001…

  • Audio: History professor discusses census

    Audio: History professor discusses census The Daily Collegian Published Independently by the students at Penn State 2010-04-09 Eddie Lau Interview with Grace Delgado, Assistant Professor of History Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor of History Grace Delgado, who specializes in Chicano history, said the U.S. census is not sensitive enough to mix-raced residents. She said having…

  • Reinventing the Color Line: Immigration and America’s New Racial/Ethnic Divide

    Reinventing the Color Line: Immigration and America’s New Racial/Ethnic Divide Social Forces Volume 86, Number 2 (December 2007) E-ISSN: 1534-7605 Print ISSN: 0037-7732 DOI: 10.1353/sof.2008.0024 Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Contemporary nonwhite immigration from Latin America and Asia, increasing…

  • Black by Choice

    Black by Choice The Nation 2010-04-15 Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies Princeton University The first black president has created a definitional crisis for whiteness. President Obama created a bit of a stir in early April when he completed his Census form. In response to the question about racial identity the…

  • Census reveals history of U.S. racial identity

    Census reveals history of U.S. racial identity San Francisco Chronicle 2010-04-18 Sally Lehrman, Fellow Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University also Knight Ridder San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair in Journalism and the Public Interest Whether or not they can lay claim to a special category, the “Confederate Southern Americans” who want…

  • Mixed feelings about mixed-race census option

    The 2010 census, which hit mailboxes this month, is causing scholars and mixed-race people to debate, for just the second time in the count’s history, the dilemma of whether or not to check multiple “race” boxes.

  • Race and Censuses From Around the World

    Race and Censuses From Around the World Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2009-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Different countries formalize different racial categories.  Below are examples of the ”race” questions on the Censuses of 9 different countries.   They illustrate just how diverse ideas about race are and challenge the notion…

  • The Census and the Social Construction of Race

    The Census and the Social Construction of Race Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2010-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethicity are social constructions, not biological categories.  The U.S. government, nonetheless, has an official position on what categories are “real.”  You can find them…