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: Kenneth Prewitt
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Multiracial America Makes Census Boxes Obsolete The Root 2013-11-04 Keli Goff As the nation becomes more multiracial, some question whether the survey can accurately reflect the country’s true diversity. Editor’s note: This is the first of three in a series. (The Root) — In 30 years, America will look very different than it does now.…
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An Inconvenient Truth: “Hispanic” is an ethnic origin, not a “race” National Institute for Latino Policy, Inc. 2013-08-24 Nancy López, Guest Commentator and Associate Professor of Sociology University of New Mexico Kenneth Prewitt’s provocative August 21st New York Times commentary calls us to “fix the census archaic racial categories.” He contends that the current national…
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Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories The New York Times 2013-08-21 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University Also former director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001 and author of What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (Princeton University Press, 2013) Starting in 1790, and…
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Chapter 8 brings us closer to the present, introducing pressures that challenge the role of statistical races in today’s policy environment. One pressure is multiraciality as exemplified in the “mark one or more” census option introduced in 2000. This option is a profound criticism of two centuries of American racial counting. There are not three…
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A German doctor [Johann Friedrich Blumenbach] in 1776 divided the human species into five races. Today, nearly two and a half centuries later, these are the same five races into which the U.S. Census divides the American population, making America the only country in the world firmly wedded to an eighteenth-century racial taxonomy. Embedded in…
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Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census U.S. Commision on Civil Rights Briefing Report March 2009 59 pages A Briefing Before The United States Commission on Civil Rights Held in Washington, DC on 2006-04-07. On April 7, 2006, a panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on racial categorization in the…