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: U.S. Census Bureau
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Multiracial Heritage Week: June 7-14, 2022 United States Census Bureau 2022-06-07 Release Number CB22-SFS.85 From the Congressional Record, 117th Congress, HON. JIM COSTA OF CALIFORNIA, June 7, 2021. HONORING MULTIRACIAL HERITAGE WEEK, “Multiracial Heritage Week is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions and achievements of the multiracial community. Multiracial individuals are not only parts of…
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Some experts are arguing that it’s time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count.
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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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Traditional reporting of census data may be contributing to misleading findings about actual demographic change.
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When it comes to measuring race, the [United States] Census Bureau has repeatedly contorted its definitions and contradicted itself to uphold a specific image of whiteness. For instance, in 1890, “quadroon” and “octoroon” were added to the census to justify the discrimination of Black Americans, only for both to be removed in the following census…
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Large groups of people have always fallen through the cracks of its racial categories — often by design.