Mixed Race Studies

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  • 2010 Census: Think Twice, Check Once

    2010 Census: Think Twice, Check Once The Huffington Post 2010-03-08 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Stanford University The federal government is taking a road trip, dubbed the 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour, to try to convince “hard-to-count audiences” to participate…

  • “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism”

    “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association 2009-05-24 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African & African American Studies Stanford University This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the “mixed race experience” are being…

  • Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society

    Stanford profs examine mixed race in U.S. society The Dartmouth Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff 2008-04-18 In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people — over 80 percent of whom were under 25 — checked more than one…