{"id":11449,"date":"2011-01-12T20:42:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11449"},"modified":"2011-01-12T20:42:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:42:29","slug":"new-challenges-in-measuring-race-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11449","title":{"rendered":"New Challenges in Measuring Race in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ppt\/nchs2010\/30_Farley.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">New Challenges in Measuring Race in the United States<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2010 National Conference on Health Statistics<br \/>\nOmni Shorem Hotel, Washington, D.C.<br \/>\n2010-08-17<br \/>\n46 pages\/slides<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psc.isr.umich.edu\/people\/profile\/27\" target=\"_blank\">Reynolds Farley<\/a><\/strong>, Research Professor Emeritus<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan<br \/>\nPopulation Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Multiracial Movement of the 1990s<\/strong> [page\/slide 2]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After Census 1990, a small social movement developed calling for a fundamental change in the way the federal statistical system classified people by race. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectrace.com\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Graham<\/a> played an important role in this.<\/li>\n<li>Rather than forcing persons to identify with one single race only, they insisted upon the addition of a \u201cMultiple Races\u201d category.<\/li>\n<li>Some leading advocates of this change were white women married to African-American men who found that their children were almost always classified as black by those who collected statistical data or tabulated persons by race. See: Kim M. Williams, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1159\" target=\"_blank\">Mark One or More Civil Rights in Multiracial America<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Who Identifies with Multiple Races?<\/strong> [page\/slide 9]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Age differences are great.<\/strong> In 2008, 5% of those under 10 were identified with two or more races; fewer than 1% for those over age 64 did so.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Race differences are substantial.<\/strong> In 2008, 52% of the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population identified with a second race; 45% of American Indians did so. For whites, it was only 3%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Educational Attainment differences in identifying with multiple races were small.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Geographic Differences in Identifying with Two or More Races are Large.<\/strong> In 2008, 21% of the residents of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honolulu\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu<\/a> and 10% in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anchorage,_Alaska\" target=\"_blank\">Anchorage<\/a> identified with 2 or more races. In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Birmingham,_Alabama\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham, Alabama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackson,_Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson, Mississippi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portland,_Maine\" target=\"_blank\">Portland, Maine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarasota,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Sarasota, Florida<\/a>; fewer than 1% identified with 2 or more races.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Measuring Race Will Be Increasingly Challenging<\/strong> [page\/slide 26]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A substantial increase in interracial marriages implies that the multiple race population is growing rapidly<\/li>\n<li>There is widespread consensus that race is a social construct. Perhaps, many people wish to construct their own racial identity.<\/li>\n<li>Question order and question wording effects are very large<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire presentation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ppt\/nchs2010\/30_Farley.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Challenges in Measuring Race in the United States 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics Omni Shorem Hotel, Washington, D.C. 2010-08-17 46 pages\/slides Reynolds Farley, Research Professor Emeritus University of Michigan Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research The Multiracial Movement of the 1990s [page\/slide 2] After Census 1990, a small social movement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,14,26,20],"tags":[71,47,5174,180,3887,5173,2545],"class_list":["post-11449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-politics","category-usa","tag-kim-m-williams","tag-kim-williams","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-reynolds-farley","tag-susan-graham","tag-tom-sawyer","tag-ward-connerly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}