Tag: Roderick J. Harrison

  • AP Exclusive: Many resist census race labels Miami Herald 2012-01-31 Hope Yen, Associated Press WASHINGTON — When the 2010 census asked people to classify themselves by race, more than 21.7 million – at least 1 in 14 – went beyond the standard labels and wrote in such terms as “Arab,” “Haitian,” “Mexican” and “multiracial.” The…

  • 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…