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  • Put a hoodie on him and have him walk down an alley, and see how biracial he is then…

    Exhibit A is President Barack Obama. He declined to check the box for “white” on his census form, despite his mother’s well-known whiteness. Obama offered no explanation, but Leila McDowell has an idea. “Put a hoodie on him and have him walk down an alley, and see how biracial he is then,” said McDowell, vice…

  • Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code

    Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code The Associated Press 2012-03-24 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity PHILADELPHIA (AP) — I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He’s only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But…

  • Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign

    Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign The Associated Press 2012-05-05 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Rachel Zoll, National Religion Writer How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs.…

  • US stopping use of term ‘Negro’ for census surveys

    US stopping use of term ‘Negro’ for census surveys The Associated Press 2013-02-25 Hope Yen WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word “Negro” to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial…

  • Bolivia’s Census Omits ‘Mestizo’ as Category

    Bolivia’s Census Omits ‘Mestizo’ as Category The New York Times 2012-11-21 The Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is under a virtual curfew as census-takers count and classify the landlocked Andean nation’s population in its first census in 11 years. Stirring controversy was the government decision not to include “mestizo” as a category…

  • Black Pride, Democratic Politics: Can They Be Separated in Blacks’ Support of Obama?

    Black Pride, Democratic Politics: Can They Be Separated in Blacks’ Support of Obama? The Associated Press 2012-10-13 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack…

  • Claims of Anti-Obama Racism Create Anger, Frustration

    Claims of Anti-Obama Racism Create Anger, Frustration The Associated Press 2012-09-09 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Is it because he’s black? The question of whether race fuels opposition to President Barack Obama has become one of the most divisive topics of the election. It is sowing anger and frustration among conservatives who are…

  • Census to Change Categories on Race

    Census to Change Categories on Race The Associated Press 2012-08-09 The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would drop use of the term “Negro,” leaving a choice of “black” or “African-American.” It would count Hispanics as separate from blacks and whites.…

  • Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’

    Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’ The Associated Press 2011-12-04 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one…