Tag: Margo Anderson

  • For years, advocates have pushed the Census Bureau for a box for people of Middle Eastern or North African descent. Now, the bureau recommends one. Some worry the data may be misused in surveillance.

  • Census reveals history of U.S. racial identity San Francisco Chronicle 2010-04-18 Sally Lehrman, Fellow Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University also Knight Ridder San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair in Journalism and the Public Interest Whether or not they can lay claim to a special category, the “Confederate Southern Americans” who want…

  • Multiracial no longer boxed in by the Census USA Today 2010-03-02 Haya El Nasser Jennifer Harvey was raised by her white mother and white stepfather in what she calls “a Caucasian world.” Harvey never met her father but she knew he was black and Cuban. That made her Hispanic, white and black. “Blacks think I’m…