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  • The Rise of Intermarriage: Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender

     The Rise of Intermarriage: Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender Pew Social and Demographic Trends Pew Research Center Washington, DC 2012-02-16 56 pages Wendy Wang, Research Associate Note from Steven F. Riley: The Pew Social and Demographic Trends data is report from 2010-06-04 for the year 2008, titled “Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is…

  • Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama

    Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama The Greenlining Institute Berkeley, California November 2011 26 pages Dr. Daniel Byrd, Research Director Bruce Mirken, Media Relations Coordinator Since the election of Barack Obama as the United States’ first African American president, there has been much discussion of whether this means the U.S. has become…

  • Baseline Study on Diversity Segments: Multirace Americans

    Baseline Study on Diversity Segments: Multirace Americans Institute for Public Relations Gainesville, Florida January 2008 15 pages Bey-Ling Sha, Ph.D., APR, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies San Diego State University Sponsored in part by ConAgra Foods, Inc. Public relations practitioners and scholars need to consider multirace Americans as an increasingly important public, with identities,…

  • First Annual Convention Report: Black German Cultural Society NJ

    First Annual Convention Report: Black German Cultural Society NJ Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. 2011-08-19 through 2011-08-21 14 pages By Priscilla Layne and S. Marina Jones The First Annual Black German Cultural Society, NJ Convention was an important opportunity for scholars, students, and individuals personally affected by Afrogerman…

  • Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation

    Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation Center on Race & Social Problems School of Social Work The University of Pittsburgh 2010 29 pages Editors: Larry E. Davis, Dean and Donald M. Henderson Professor of Social Work and Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems University of Pittsburgh Ralph Bangs, Associate Director…

  • What about These Children? Assessing Poverty Among the ‘Hidden Population’ of Multiracial Children in Single-Mother Families

    What about These Children? Assessing Poverty Among the ‘Hidden Population’ of Multiracial Children in Single-Mother Families University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series: DP 2010-09 2010 ISSN: 1936-9379 48 pages Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Sarah Damaske, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations Pennsylvania State University…

  • Mixed schools and mixed blood

    Mixed schools and mixed blood Citizen’s Council of Mississippi: States’ Rights-Racial Integrity 1956 14 pages Source: Digital Collections of the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries USM Identifier: mus-mcc029 Herbert Ravenel Sass From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In the pamphlet, Sass argues that segregation is an American institution and that the Civil Rights movement…

  • America’s Diverse Future: Initial Glimpses at the U.S. Child Population from the 2010 Census

    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…

  • Lone Mothers of Children from Mixed Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds: A Case Study

    Lone Mothers of Children from Mixed Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds: A Case Study Single Parent Action Network (SPAN) January 2010 41 pages Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow London South Bank University This report draws on case study findings with 10 lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children to look at their everyday experiences of…

  • The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census

    The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census No. 96-370 Population Studies Center Research Report Series Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan August 1996 Yu Xie, Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology University of Michigan Kimberly A. Goyette, Associate Professor of Sociology Temple University…