Mixed Race Studies

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  • Does the British State’s Categorisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Meet Public Policy Needs?

    Does the British State’s Categorisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Meet Public Policy Needs? Social Policy & Society Volume 9, Number 1 (January 2010) pages 55-69 DOI:10.1017/S1474746409990194 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK The England and Wales 2001 Census was the first to include ‘Mixed’…

  • Obama Census Choice: African-American

    Obama Census Choice: African-American The Huffington Post 2010-04-02 Mark S. Smith WASHINGTON — He may be the world’s foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama gave only one answer to the question about his ethnic background: African-American. The White House confirmed on Friday that Obama did…

  • Who are the ‘Mixed’ ethnic group?

    Who are the ‘Mixed’ ethnic group? Office for National Statistics [United Kingdom] May 2006 Ben Bradford Introduction The last fifty years have seen the emergence of some new, predominantly British-born, ethnic minorities. These are the children of inter-ethnic partnerships, primarily partnerships between people from the White British group and people from ethnic minority groups. They…

  • Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference

    Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies, Inc. 2010-04-08 through 2010-04-10 L’Enfant Plaza Hotel Washington, D.C. Dr. Larry Shinagawa, NAES 2010 Conference Chair Our theme of “Who Counts and Who’s Counting” signals the importance of Washington, D.C. as a physical, cultural, and social…

  • 3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census

    3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on the U.S. Census MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010-04-01 Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology As America’s decennial headcount gets under way, an MIT political scientist discusses the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census April 1 marks National…

  • Biracial residents boxed in on U.S. census

    Biracial residents boxed in on U.S. census MSNBC 2010-03-31 Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent NBC Nightly News We’ve asked viewers to tell us how their community has changed since the last census. One viewer from outside Olympia, Washingtonwrote in to tell the story of how diverse her community has become. NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo reports.

  • Multiracialism In America – Jane Junn

    Multiracialism In America – Jane Junn New Century Foundation New York, New York 2008-08-05 Length: 00:04:04 Jane Junn, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University Rutgers University Political scientist Jane Junn examines shifting views on racial categorization in the United States. Junn notes the increasingly common use of the “Multiracial” designation on the U.S.…

  • Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality

    Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality In Suzanne Mettler, Joe Soss, and Jacob Hacker (eds.). Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality Russell Sage Foundation November 2007 41 pages Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard…

  • Multiracial versus Collective Black Categories: Examining Census Classification Debates in Brazil

    Multiracial versus Collective Black Categories: Examining Census Classification Debates in Brazil Ethnicities Volume 6, Number 1 (2006) pages 74-101 DOI: 10.1177/1468796806061080 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Current census debates in Brazil surrounding Brazilian race categories center on two contrasting proposals: the…

  • Multiracialism & the civil rights future

    Multiracialism & the civil rights future Daedalus Volume 134, Number 1 (Winter 2005) Pages 53-60 DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124406 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University Spurred by a small group of activists in the 1990s, the American system of racial classification changed recently in a conceptually bold way. With moving…