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  • Answer Formats in British Census and Survey Ethnicity Questions: Does Open Response Better Capture ‘Superdiversity’?

    Answer Formats in British Census and Survey Ethnicity Questions: Does Open Response Better Capture ‘Superdiversity’? Sociology Volume 46, Number 2 (April 2012) pages 354-364 DOI: 10.1177/0038038511419195 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK During a period of unprecedented ethnicity data collection in Britain, an…

  • Racial Divides in a Multicultural America

    Racial Divides in a Multicultural America The American Prospect 2011-01-31 Jamelle Bouie In The New York Times, Susan Saulny writes about the apparent malleability of race in an increasingly multicultural America. To that end, she profiles a group of students in the Multiracial and Biracial Student Association at the University of Maryland:   Many young…

  • Miscegenation Ball

    Miscegenation Ball The Atlantic 2011-02-01 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor Reporters should stop writing these beiging of America stories, and listen to Jamelle Boiue: The great majority of intermarriages take place between Hispanics, Asians and whites. If there is a great population of multiracial people, it’s almost certain that they will be some combination of Hispanic…

  • Race in South Africa: Still an issue

    Race in South Africa: Still an issue The Economist 2012-02-04 Mixed-race citizens remain uneasy about black rule If Barack Obama lived in South Africa, he might be called a coloured. Under apartheid, the government decided to which of four racial categories a South African belonged—black, coloured, Indian/Asian or white—depending mostly on looks. The same categorisation…

  • Race Remixed?

    The 2000 U.S. Census was the first in modern times allowing respondents to check off more than one box for the mandatory race question. In 2010, the number of people checking more than one box grew enormously.

  • Are there ‘Mestizos’ in the Arab World? A Comparative Survey of Classification Categories and Kinship Systems

    Are there ‘Mestizos’ in the Arab World? A Comparative Survey of Classification Categories and Kinship Systems Middle Eastern Studies Volume 48, Issue 1 (January 2012) pages 125-138 DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2011.643301 Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Professor of Social Anthropology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Terminology devoted to miscegenation and inter-ethnic relationships is extremely problematic, and this article shows…

  • Lecture Series. Multiculturalism and Miscegenation in the Construction of Latin America’s Cultural Identity

    Lecture Series. Multiculturalism and Miscegenation in the Construction of Latin America’s Cultural Identity   Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 101 International Studies Building 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign, Illinois 2012-02-23, 12:00 CST (Local Time) Eduardo Coutihno, Distinguished Lemann Visiting Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign…

  • AP Exclusive: Many resist census race labels

    AP Exclusive: Many resist census race labels Miami Herald 2012-01-31 Hope Yen, Associated Press WASHINGTON — When the 2010 census asked people to classify themselves by race, more than 21.7 million – at least 1 in 14 – went beyond the standard labels and wrote in such terms as “Arab,” “Haitian,” “Mexican” and “multiracial.” The…

  • Passing: How posing as white became a choice for many black Americans

    Passing: How posing as white became a choice for many black Americans Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2003-10-26 Monica L. Haynes, Post-Gazette Staff Writer The young unkempt woman still in her pajamas shuffled into her 8 a.m. college psychology class and sat down next to Barbara Douglass. “I’m sure glad there are no niggers in this…

  • Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges?

    Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-30 Alex P. Kellogg, Special to CNN Among university departments that study African-American history, Latin American or Chicano cultures and all varieties of ethnicities and nationalities, there’s a relatively obscure field of academic inquiry: whiteness…