{"id":26479,"date":"2012-11-14T19:59:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T19:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26479"},"modified":"2013-09-22T00:54:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:54:53","slug":"news-from-the-2012-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference-business-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26479","title":{"rendered":"News from the 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Business Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>News from the 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Business Meeting<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2012-11-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/las.depaul.edu\/lals\/People\/FacultyBiographies\/CamillaFojas.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Camilla Fojas<\/a>,<\/strong> (CMRS 2012 organizer) Associate Professor and Chair<br \/>\nLatin American and Latino Studies<br \/>\n<em>DePaul University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Kina<\/a><\/strong>, (Mixed Roots Midwest 2012 co-organizer) Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies<br \/>\n<em>DePaul University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/e80f9aab434abae2b4b391cae\/images\/IMG_2689b144d2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto of Eric Hamako at CMRS 2012 by Ken Tanabe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US Census Report from Eric Hamako<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominated by a coalition of Mixed-Race community organizations, <a href=\"http:\/\/erichamako.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Hamako<\/a> has been selected to serve a two-year term on the US Census Bureau\u2019s National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations.\u00a0 (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/miscellaneous\/cb12-r33.html\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Two matters of particular concern for Multiracial people &amp; Two Or More Races (TOMR) populations.\n<ol>\n<li>ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS: For cost efficiency, the Census Bureau is considering using \u201cAdministrative Records\u201d in some cases when a person doesn\u2019t submit information to the Census (e.g., if Jane X doesn\u2019t submit a Census 2020 form and doesn\u2019t respond to follow-up requests, the Census might access other public and private databases that contain info about Jane X, to fill in info about her).\u00a0 However, currently Census studies indicate that Administrative Records are worse at filling in info about non-Whites than Whites &#8212; and are <em>particularly<\/em> bad at filling in info about people who indicate Two Or More Races (TOMR), ranging from 4%-36% accuracy.\u00a0 This is largely because many public and private databases do not allow respondents to Mark One or More races.\u00a0 We need to find ways to improve the accuracy of Administrative Record use.<\/li>\n<li>ALTERNATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE EXPERIMENTS (AQEs): Long before each Census, the Bureau tests out various possible changes, using AQEs.\u00a0 One of the many changes currently being considered is an option that combines the Race question and the Hispanic ethnicity question into a single question.\u00a0 This would likely a) increase the accuracy of the count of Latinos, b) increase the number of Latinos who are indicating Two Or More Races, c) reduce the White population count by 6-8%.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eric is soliciting community perspectives.<\/strong>\u00a0 Please review NAC-related documents (see public <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/#folders\/0BwyQnhamKep4SzRIdDlYT040ZDA\" target=\"_blank\">GoogleDocs folder<\/a>) and contact Eric at <a href=\"mailto:CensusNAC@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">CensusNAC@gmail.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Eric is also constructing a blog, \u201cTwo or More,\u201d to communicate about the NAC, <a href=\"http:\/\/censusnac.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/censusnac.blogspot.com\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News from the 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Business Meeting 2012-11-13 Camilla Fojas, (CMRS 2012 organizer) Associate Professor and Chair Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Laura Kina, (Mixed Roots Midwest 2012 co-organizer) Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Photo of Eric Hamako at CMRS 2012 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,20],"tags":[847,4204,1525,41],"class_list":["post-26479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-camilla-fojas","tag-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","tag-eric-hamako","tag-laura-kina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479","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=26479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}