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  • Yet having populated North America for nearly four centuries, mixed-race people are far from being a recent phenomenon in the United States.

    Yet having populated North America for nearly four centuries, mixed-race people are far from being a recent phenomenon in the United States. Their early presence has been recorded to greater and lesser degrees in legal records, literature, and historical documentation. As far back as the 1630s and 1640s, colonial records attest to the punishment of…

  • Census Bureau Names Ann Morning to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations

    Census Bureau Names Ann Morning to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations Newsroom, News Release: CB13-R.30 United States Census Bureau 2013-06-26 Public Information Office, Phone: 301-763-3030 Note from Steven F. Riley: Ann Morning is the author of book The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference (University of California Press,…

  • More Americans consider themselves multiracial

    More Americans consider themselves multiracial The Los Angeles Times 2013-06-12 Emily Alpert The number of mixed or multiracial people in the United States jumped 6.6% between 2010 and 2012, according to the Census Bureau. Their ranks will only continue to grow, experts say. The number of Americans who consider themselves multiracial has grown faster than…

  • US Census: Rationalizing Race in US History

    US Census: Rationalizing Race in US History Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society, Othmer Library Brooklyn, New York 2013-04-18, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) View the full video of the event here. What boxes do you mark on the U.S. Census to describe your heritage? Prior to the year 2000, multiracial people could only check…

  • Bodies with Histories: The New Search for the Biology of Race

    Bodies with Histories: The New Search for the Biology of Race Boston Review May/June 2012 Anne Fausto-Sterling Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Biochemistry, Program in Women’s Studies, and Chair of the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Richard C. Francis, Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance. W.…

  • International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing

    International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing develops theoretical perspectives and presents intellectually shaped empirical evidence that can deal with complexity and normalcy in order to move the debate onto more fruitful grounds. It is an important book for students and scholars of race and ethnicity.

  • The Historic Dimensions of American Multiraciality

    By obscuring the historic dimensions of American multiraciality—emphasizing its newness but not its oldness—we may run the risk of ignoring lessons that past racial stratification offers for understanding today’s outcomes. For one thing, older social norms still make themselves felt in contemporary discussion of mixed-race identity (Davis, 1991; Waters, 1991; Wilson, 1992). In addition, history…

  • The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference

    What do Americans think “race” means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks.

  • Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification

    Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification Social Science Research Volume 40, Issue 2 (March 2011) pages 498–512 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.12.010 Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University Social scientists have become increasingly interested in the racial identification choices of multiracial individuals, partly as a result…

  • Black/Irish: How do Americans understand their multiracial ancestry?

    Black/Irish: How do Americans understand their multiracial ancestry? Population Association of America 2009 Annual Meeting Marriott Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 2009-05-01 19 pages Aaron Gullickson, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology New York University In recent years, studies examining the racial identification of mixed-race individuals on surveys and…