Category: Census/Demographics

  • Counting Multiracial People in the Census: The Unfulfilled Wish for More Data Racism Review 2010-03-26 Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University People who study the multiracial population are constantly confronted with the problem of small numbers to work with.  A recent article I co-authored…

  • Census Chief Apologizes for ‘Negro’ Category The New York Times 2010-03-26 Kate Phillips When Robert Groves, the director of the Census Bureau, appeared on C-Span’s “Washington Journal” program Friday morning, he found himself having to defend the racial designations on the census form… Read the entire article here.

  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) consists of fifty-nine high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses, from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2007, and from the Puerto Rican Community Surveys of 2005-2007. Some of these samples have existed for years, and others were created…

  • Assessing Shifting Racial Boundaries: Racial Classification of Biracial Asian Children in the 2000 Census Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2009-12-07 77 pages Sara Megan McDonough Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Sociology. This…

  • Contentious Legacies: Mixed-Race in the Age of Colorblindess and Beyond University of Illinois, Urbana-Champiagn Asian American Cultural Center 2010-03-30 12:00 CDT (Local Time) Tessa Winklemann This presentation is about Mixed Race issues, the 2010 Census, and the history of the construction of race and the census in the United States. For more information, click here.

  • Census and Consensus? A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology Used for American Residents of African Ancestry Peter Lang Publishing Group 2005-07-31 232 pages 20.6 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm US-ISBN: 978-0-8204-7667-4 Iman Makeba Laversuch, Lecturer University of Cologne, Germany Colored, Black, Negro, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, African American. This book provides an in-depth…

  • The Monochrome Society: Americanness and the unsung agreement across racial lines Policy Review Hoover Institution Stanford University Feburary & March 2001 Amitai Etzioni Various demographers and other social scientists have been predicting for years that the end of the white majority in the United States is near, and that there will be a majority of…

  • In multiracial America, the census puts us in a box Washington Post 2010-03-21 Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside I received the census form in the mail last week, and I was ready. A vaguely admonitory letter from the Census Bureau had arrived the week before, urging me to fill out…

  • How to really be accurate on ‘race’ on the Census The American Thinker 2010-03-17 James Lewis Not many people like to fill in the “race” category on the Census, because we know perfectly well that it comes from the Left, which has found another way to slice and dice the American people, to set us…

  • Count Yourself In California: The Census on Multiracial ID’s Spot.Us 2010-03-18 Denise L. Poon When she fills out her 2010 Census form this week, 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 [University of California] Irvine and…