{"id":16020,"date":"2011-09-03T01:46:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2011-09-03T01:46:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:46:36","slug":"emory-and-cnn-launch-public-dialogue-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16020","title":{"rendered":"Emory and CNN Launch Public Dialogue Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emorywheel.com\/detail.php?n=29965\" target=\"_blank\">Emory and CNN Launch Public Dialogue Series<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emorywheel.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Emory Wheel<\/a><br \/>\n2011-09-02<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:aserfoz@emory.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Serfozo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emory University hosted an inaugural event in partnership with CNN on Wednesday evening that aims to facilitate discourse related to the results of the 2010 Census and its reflection of new population trends in America.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCNN Dialogues\u2014an ongoing colloquium with panels scheduled throughout October, November and December\u2014is organized in partnership with Emory University, the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Panelists discussed how popular culture, urban studies and sociology explores the identities behind the 2010 U.S. Census and how people live.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPanelists included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heididurrow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi W. Durrow<\/a>, author of the novel <em>The Girl Who Fell From the Sky<\/em>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardjamesolmos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward James Olmos<\/a>, actor and activist; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yulkwon\" target=\"_blank\">Yul Kwon<\/a>, the host of PBS\u2019s \u201cAmerica Revealed\u201d; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsos.umd.edu\/socy\/people\/kmarsh.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kris Marsh<\/a>, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maryland at College Park; and <a href=\"http:\/\/ila.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/white.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dana White<\/a>, Goodrich C. White professor of Urban Studies at Emory University&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Panelists discussed the U.S. Census, which the government administers each decade and is federally mandated by the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>It serves not only as a population marker used to reapportion electoral seats, but also to reassess state funding&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDurrow addressed the recent argument over having a one \u201cbox\u201d limit for the race category on the Census form, to a multi-choice option for citizens with multiple ethnicities.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cAs someone with a Danish mother and an African-American father, I struggled with my [Census form] selection,\u201d she said. \u201cI understand that the Census is not exactly the place for self-identification. It\u2019s about reapportionment and money, but it\u2019s also important to know that there\u2019s an evolving mix occurring.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAdding to Durrow\u2019s point, Marsh acknowledged the differences in inner and outer identity in standardized Census data collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that there are two Americas today,\u201d Marsh said. \u201cThere\u2019s how we selectively self-identify\u2014for instance, I could claim I\u2019m a white woman all day\u2014and then there\u2019s how the outside world identifies us, where I would be more apt to be seen as a black woman.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emorywheel.com\/detail.php?n=29965\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emory and CNN Launch Public Dialogue Series The Emory Wheel 2011-09-02 Amanda Serfozo Emory University hosted an inaugural event in partnership with CNN on Wednesday evening that aims to facilitate discourse related to the results of the 2010 Census and its reflection of new population trends in America. \u00a0 CNN Dialogues\u2014an ongoing colloquium with panels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,6,26,394,20],"tags":[7430,7431,7105,4732,65,64,7107,2337,7106],"class_list":["post-16020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-amanda-serfozo","tag-dana-white","tag-edward-james-olmos","tag-emory-university","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-heidi-w-durrow","tag-kris-marsh","tag-the-emory-wheel","tag-yul-kwon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020","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=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}