Month: June 2015

  • ‘Mislaid,’ by Nell Zink Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2015-06-04 Walter Kirn Agata Nowicka Zink, Nell, Mislaid: A Novel (New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015). 242 pages. Toward the middle of Nell Zink’s “Mislaid,” a screwball comic novel of identity, Karen, a Southern white girl whose lesbian mother has raised her as black for complicated…

  • How Census Race Categories Have Changed Over Time Pew Research Center 2015-06-10 Explore the different race, ethnicity and origin categories used in the U.S. decennial census, from the first one in 1790 to the latest count in 2010. The category names often changed in a reflection of current politics, science and public attitudes. For example,…

  • Pew: Multiracial Americans Now Make Up 7% Of Population Wisconsin Public Radio Thursday, 2015-06-11, 16:35 CDT Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Jennifer Sims, Adjunct Visiting Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, River Falls According to Census data, only about 2 percent of Americans consider themselves to be multiracial, but a new report…

  • Report Says Census Undercounts Mixed Race The New York Times 2015-06-11 Richard Pérez-Peña, National Desk The number of American adults with mixed-race backgrounds is three times what official census figures indicate, and the figure is rising fast, according to a survey released Thursday. But most do not call themselves multiracial. The Pew Research Center survey…

  • Exhibit: “AfroBrasil: Art and Identities” National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum 1701 4th Street SW Albuquerque, New Mexico Friday, December 12, 2014 to mid-August, 2015; Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00 MT; Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00 MT Brazil* hosted soccer’s World Cup in the summer of 2014, and soon will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. While many are familiar with these events…

  • Mislaid: A Novel Ecco/HarperCollins 2015-05-19 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780062364777 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780062364784 E-book ISBN: 9780062364791 Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 0.89 in (d) Nell Zink A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice—the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper—about the making and…

  • Afro-Latinas: Finding A Place To Belong New Latina 2012-03-12 Tracy López, Editor-in-Chief Latinaish: Una Gringa Biena Latina Identity – It’s something every human being wrestles with at some time in their life – some more than others. For Afro-Latinas, self identifying can be especially difficult. The sense of ignored, unrecognized and invisible, is prevalent among…

  • I’m Middle Eastern And White, And Those Are Not The Same Thing xoJane 2015-06-08 Erica Pishdadian It’s time to stop the confusion and give Middle Eastern and North African people our own racial classification. I recently moved to New York City, and in between my two favorite hobbies (climbing up to my fifth floor apartment…

  • The Myth of a White Minority 2015-06-11 Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology City University of New York Graduate Center IN 2012, the Census Bureau announced that nonwhite births exceeded white births for the first time. In 2013, it noted that more whites were dying than were being born. In March, it projected that non-Hispanic…

  • Multiracial in America Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. 2015-06-11 155 pages Principal Researchers Kim Parker, Director of Social Trends Research Rich Morin, Senior Editor Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Associate Director, Research Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Research Team Anna Brown, Research Assistant D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Richard Fry, Senior Researcher Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate…