Category: New Media

  • On College Forms, a Question of Race, or Races, Can Perplex The New York Times 2011-06-13 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg HOUSTON — At the beginning of the college application season last fall, Natasha Scott, a high school senior of mixed racial heritage in Beltsville, Md., vented about a personal dilemma on College Confidential, the go-to…

  • For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil Miami Herald 2011-05-24 Taylor Barnes, Special to the Miami Herald Brazilians are no longer reluctant to admit being black or ‘pardo,’ experts said. RIO DE JANEIRO—In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of…

  • Mixed race vote key to Cape Town in S. Africa polls The Citizen 2011-05-16 Justine Gerardy Fruit seller Amien Cox will put his hopes on a white woman in South Africa’s local polls on Wednesday, 17 years after the fall of the racist apartheid regime that denied an all-race vote. CAPE TOWN – Fruit seller…

  • PBS series explores black culture in Latin America 2011-04-18 Jennifer Kay Associated Press MIAMI—On a street in a seaside city in Brazil, four men describe themselves to Henry Louis Gates Jr. as black. Flabbergasted, the Harvard scholar insists they compare their skin tones with his. In a jumble, their forearms form a mocha spectrum. Oh,…

  • More Minnesotans say they’re multiracial in 2010 Census TwinCities.com: Pioneer Press 2011-04-17 Richard Chin and MaryJo Webster Maybe it’s hip to be mixed. That could be one explanation for Minnesota’s 51 percent increase over the past decade in the number of people who say they are multiracial, substantially higher than the national increase. According to…

  • For some, question of race a struggle The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2011-04-05 Karen Lee Ziner, Journal Staff Writer Face to face with the question of racial identity, Providence lawyer Kas R. DeCarvalho chose a write-in option under “Other” in the 2010 census form. “I put in mixed and called it a day,” said…

  • America’s Diverse Future: Initial Glimpses at the U.S. Child Population from the 2010 Census Brookings State of Metropolitan American Number 29 (2011-04-06) 14 pages William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program For some time, Americans have been aware that “new minorities”—particularly Hispanics, Asians, and people of more than one race—are becoming a more important…

  • Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial The Daily Texan University of Texas, Austin 2011-04-01 Shamoyita DasGupta, Daily Texan Staff More Americans than ever before identify as multiracial, according to the 2010 census.   Of the 9 million people who listed themselves as more than one race, 4.2 million are children. The percentage rose…

  • GW gives community option to identify as multiracial The GW Hatchet George Washington University, Washington D.C. 2011-03-28 Pavan Jagannathan, Hatchet Reporter The University added a new category for multiracial students, faculty and staff to classify themselves as “two or more races” in University institutional data, moving into compliance with a new federal regulation. University Provost…

  • The social and economic circumstances of mixed ethnicity children in the UK: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published online: 2011-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556745 Lidia Panico, Research Student Department for Epidemiology and Public Health University College London James Y. Nazroo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Cathie Marsh Centre for…