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  • Shifting Demographics: Preparing for a New Race and Ethnicity Classification Scheme in NAEP

    Shifting Demographics: Preparing for a New Race and Ethnicity Classification Scheme in NAEP Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 3 pages 1 chart, 1 table Salvador Rivas American Institutes for Research On September 24, 2007, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) issued final guidance for collecting and reporting race/ethnicity information to all…

  • Geographies of racially mixed people and households: A focus on American Indians

    Geographies of racially mixed people and households: A focus on American Indians Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 23 pages Carolyn A. Liebler, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota Meghan Zacher Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center University of Minnesota March 2010 Multiracial individuals and…

  • Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity

    Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting Program 2010-04-17 Guang Guo, Odum Distinguished Term Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Yilan Fu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kathleen Mullan Harris, James Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Two sharply…

  • Rethinking race at the Students of Color Dinner

    Rethinking race at the Students of Color Dinner University of Buffalo Law Links University of Buffalo Law School April 2010 On the day that civil rights icon Benjamin Hooks passed away, UB Law School’s 21st annual Students of Color Dinner took stock of the nation’s state of race relations – and celebrated achievements that transcended…

  • Jackie Kay – Red Dust Road Launch Night

    Jackie Kay – Red Dust Road Launch Night Glasgow Women’s Library 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow, Scotland Wednesday 2010-06-23, 19:00 BST Red Dust Road Exclusive Launch Jackie Kay is known and loved for her fiction – a novel, and short stories -, for her poetry and her plays. In this revelatory and redemptive book, with characteristic…

  • Borders Book Festival: Where Words Come Alive—Jackie Kay

    Borders Book Festival: Where Words Come Alive—Jackie Kay Harmony Marquee Melrose, Scotland 2010-06-20, 20:30 BST (Local Time) Published only days before the festival, Red Dust Road is Jackie Kay’s autobiographical journey.  Adopted by warm-spirited Scottish communists, Jackie has never thought of anyone else as her ‘real’ parents, but meeting her birth father and mother was…

  • Hollins University Commencement

    Hollins University Commencement 2010-05-22 through 2010-05-23 Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and a graduate of Hollins University’s master of arts program in English and creative writing, will be the guest speaker at Hollins’ 168th Commencement Exercises, which will be held on Sunday, May 23, 2010, at…

  • Multiracial Identity [Movie], World Premiere Screening

    Multiracial Identity [Movie], World Premiere Screening Politics on Film 2010 Festival Saturday, 2010-05-08, 13:30 EDT (Local Time) E Street Cinema (Purchase tickets on-line here.) 555 11th Street, NW Washington, DC Year: 2010 Director: Brian Chinhema Writer: Brian Chinhema Producer: Brian Chinhema (Abacus Production) Running Time: 01:22:00 Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in America, yet…

  • What Are You? Multi-racial and Bi-racial College Student Experiences [Session Handout]

    What Are You? Multi-racial and Bi-racial College Student Experiences [Session Handout] Association of College Unions International Annual Conference New York, New York 2010-03-01 13:00Z – 14:15Z 1 March 2010 11 pages Megan E. Bell, Assistant Director University Memorial Center University of Colorado, Boulder Seven million people checked more than one box to select their ethnicity…

  • Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black.

    Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black. The New Republic 2010-04-07 John Judis, Senior Editor and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace When asked about his race on the census form, Barack Obama, the child of a white Kansan and black African, did not take the option of checking both “white” and…