Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: U.S. Census Bureau
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That the sharp rise in multiracial Latinos in 2020 is due to an accounting change, rather than a real demographic or social trend, is clear when we look at the 2019 American Community Survey, run annually by the Census Bureau. The ACS collected and classified race in the same way that the 2010 census had…
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United States Census Shows Great Increase in Percentage of Mixed Element.
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The Census Bureau wanted to gather data about a changing nation, but ended up reinforcing old racial categories.
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1 In 7 People Are ‘Some Other Race’ On The U.S. Census. That’s A Big Data Problem National Public Radio 2021-09-30 Hansi Lo Wang Growing numbers of Latinos identifying as “Some other race” for the U.S. census have boosted the category to become the country’s second-largest racial group after “White.” Researchers are concerned the catchall…
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What The New Census Data Shows About Race Depends On How You Look At It National Public Radio 2021-08-13 Connie Hanzhang Jin Ruth Talbot Hansi Lo Wang, Correspondent, National Desk Over the past decade, the United States continued to grow more racially and ethnically diverse, according to the results of last year’s national head count…
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A birth certificate masked my multiracial truth. For me and 33 million others, the 2020 Census asserts it. The Washington Post 2021-08-31 Steve Majors More than 33 million people in the United States identify as being of two or more races, according to the 2020 Census, a 276 percent jump from the 2010 head count.…
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A new ‘diversity index’ and a subtle change in a question have resulted in an undercount of whites.
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EXCLUSIVE! MASC Analysis of Census 2020: Latinos Make Up A Majority of the Multiracial Population Multiracial Americans of Southern California 2021-08-23 The recent release of Census 2020 demographic data has enabled us to envision a new version of the country we live in. The following charts and discussion have been prepared to tell a story…
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Some news coverage of the latest 2020 census results may have led you to think the white population in the U.S. is shrinking or in decline.