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  • Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas

    Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas Fannie Mae Foundation 2002 45 pages William H. Frey University of Michigan and the Milken Institute Dowell Myers University of Southern California This report accompanies the release of detailed racial segregation indices for 1,246 individual U.S. cities with populations…

  • Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is Interracial or Interethnic

    Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is Interracial or Interethnic Pew Research Center 2010-06-04 41 pages Paul Taylor, Project Director Pew Research Center Jeffrey S. Passel, Senior Demographer Pew Research Center Wendy Wang, Research Associate Pew Research Center Jocelyn Kiley, Research Associate Pew Research Center Gabriel Velasco, Research Analyst Pew Research Center Daniel Dockterman, Research…

  • The Educational Costs of Being Multiracial: Evidence from a National Survey of Adolescents

    The Educational Costs of Being Multiracial: Evidence from a National Survey of Adolescents PSC Research Report Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research University of Michigan Report No. 02-521 August 2002 24 pages, 5 tables David R. Harris, Deputy Provost, Vice Provost for Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology Cornell University Justin L.…

  • A portrait of couples in mixed unions

    A portrait of couples in mixed unions Component of Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 11-008-X Canadian Social Trends 2010-04-20 pages 68-80 Anne Milan, Senior Analyst Demography Division Hélène Maheux, Analyst Immigration and Ethnocultural Section Tina Chui, Chief Immigration and Ethnocultural Section in the Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division As Canada‘s population continues to become ethnoculturally diverse,…

  • Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census

    Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census U.S. Commision on Civil Rights Briefing Report March 2009 59 pages A Briefing Before The United States Commission on Civil Rights Held in Washington, DC on 2006-04-07. On April 7, 2006, a panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on racial categorization in the…

  • Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children: Delemmas, Decision-Making and Outcomes

    Pathways to Permanence for Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnicity Children: Delemmas, Decision-Making and Outcomes Research Brief DCSF-RBX-13-08 October 2008 8 pages Julie Selwyn Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies University of Bristol P. Harris Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies University of Bristol David Quinton Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster…

  • Research Report: Black + White = Black: Hypodescent in Reflexive Categorization of Racially Ambiguous Faces

    Research Report: Black + White = Black: Hypodescent in Reflexive Categorization of Racially Ambiguous Faces Psychological Science Volume 19, Number 10 (2008) pages 973-977 Destiny Peery Department of Psychology, Northwestern University Galen V. Bodenhausen, Lawyer Taylor Professor of Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences Northwestern University Historically, the principle of hypodescent specified…

  • Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census

    Multiracial Identity and the U.S. Census ProQuest Discovery Guides January 2010 Tyrone Nagai, Supervising Editor of Social Sciences ProQuest Introduction: What is Multiracial Identity?   Back on April 23, 1997, 21-year-old golfer Tiger Woods made headlines on the Oprah Winfrey Show when he described his racial background as “Cablinasian,” an abbreviation representing his “Caucasian,” “Black,”…

  • Deconstructing Race: Biracial Adolescents’ Fluid Racial Self-labels

    Deconstructing Race: Biracial Adolescents’ Fluid Racial Self-labels 2008-12-01 Alethea Rollins University of North Carolina, Greensboro Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro Biracial people shatter the idea of effortless categorization of race, identity, and group membership. Multirace membership forces scholars to examine what race is, how they…

  • Examining Mixed-Ancestry Identity in Adolescents

    Examining Mixed-Ancestry Identity in Adolescents Wellesley Centers for Women Research & Action Report Fall/Winter 2008 Two years ago, scholars at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) launched a study of racial and ethnic identification among adolescents of mixed ancestry. The reasons for pursuing the research were several. Most literature about ethnic/racial self-identification patterns derived from…