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: Pew Research Center
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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…
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Census Bureau explores new Middle East/North Africa ethnic category Pew Research Center 2014-03-24 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project Organizations representing people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are asking the Census Bureau to add a new ethnic category on forms. People of this heritage are now categorized as “white,”…
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Millions of Americans changed their racial or ethnic identity from one census to the next Pew Research Center 2014-05-05 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Social & Demographic Trends Project Millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms, according to new research…
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The Next America Pew Research Center 2014-04-10 Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President of Special Projects Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion. America is in the midst of two right now. Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Each of these shifts would by itself be…
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‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census Pew Research Center 2014-04-04 Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project What is your race? The U.S. Census Bureau asks this question of every U.S. household, but the menu of options offered…
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U.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity Pew Research Center 2014-03-14 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor at the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer at the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project The Census Bureau has embarked on a years-long research project intended…
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About 15% of all new marriages in the United States in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another, more than double the share in 1980 (6.7%). Among all newlyweds in 2010, 9% of whites, 17% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 28% of Asians married out. Looking at all…