Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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: Hansi Lo Wang
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The Biden administration is proposing major changes to forms for the 2030 census and federal government surveys that would transform how Latinos and people of Middle Eastern or North African descent are counted in statistics across the United States.
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The 2020 census continued a longstanding trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino, according to estimates from a report the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.
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The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t National Public Radio 2022-02-17 Hansi Lo Wang, Correspondent, National Desk Federal government standards require the U.S. census to count people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa as white. But a new study finds many people of MENA descent…
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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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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.
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A Census Bureau announcement about the race and ethnicity questions for the 2020 census suggests the Trump administration will not support Obama-era proposals to change how the U.S. government collects information about race and ethnicity, census experts say.
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A spokesperson for OMB could not provide any information about the delay.
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Some major changes may be coming to how the U.S. government collects data about the country’s racial and ethnic makeup.
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Walking Down The Widening Aisle Of Interracial Marriages Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2014-02-15 Hansi Lo Wang Editor’s Note: Code Switch has been engaged in a month-long exploration of romance across racial and cultural lines. Follow the Twitter conversation via the hashtag #xculturelove. The numbers are…