Tag: The Stanford Daily

  • Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable The Stanford Daily Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 2015-02-13 Victor Xu, Desk Editor Vicki Niu ’18 (right) was one of 10 students who participated in an hourlong roundtable with President Barack Obama on Friday afternoon. (SAM GIRVIN/The Stanford Daily) Rio LaVigne ’15 signed up to meet…

  • Students more likely to identify as multiracial The Stanford Daily: Breaking News from the Farm Since 1892 Stanford University 2012-10-24 Taylor Chambers Erika Roach ’13 identifies herself as “Blasian,” while Marcus Montanez-Leaks ’13 says he’s “Blexican.” These terms and others used to describe mixed race individuals are becoming more common in conversation and student groups…

  • I Do Choose To Run: Personal boxes and the ethics of race The Stanford Daily 2012-04-09 Miles Unterreiner In an eloquently argued New York Times Sunday Review article on March 16th, entitled “As Black as We Wish to Be,” author Thomas Chatterton Williams advances a provocative and thought-provoking argument: “mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation…

  • Blending together The Stanford Daily Stanford University 2011-05-05 Ashley Menzies These students are part of the growing country-wide phenomenon of individuals who identify themselves as “mixed race.” The number of people who check both the black and white boxes has increased by 134 percent to 1.8 million since the 2000 census, the first time it…

  • The 2010 census, which hit mailboxes this month, is causing scholars and mixed-race people to debate, for just the second time in the count’s history, the dilemma of whether or not to check multiple “race” boxes.