{"id":42605,"date":"2015-09-08T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42605"},"modified":"2015-09-16T18:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T18:13:54","slug":"race-in-the-united-states-mississippi-and-hawaii-at-two-ends-of-the-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42605","title":{"rendered":"Race in the United States \u2013 Mississippi and Hawaii at Two Ends of the Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ucrtoday.ucr.edu\/31188\" target=\"_blank\">Race in the United States \u2013 Mississippi and Hawaii at Two Ends of the Spectrum<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ucrtoday.ucr.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">UCR Today<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Riverdale<br \/>\n2015-09-04<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mojgansherkat\" target=\"_blank\">Mojgan Sherkat<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"mailto:mojgan.sherkat@ucr.edu\" target=\"_blank\">mojgan.sherkat@ucr.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riverside,_California\" target=\"_blank\">RIVERSIDE, Calif.<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucr.edu\" target=\"_blank\">www.ucr.edu<\/a>) \u2013 There\u2019s a lot to learn about race in the United States through statistical figures alone, especially when comparisons are made between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a>, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/swanson\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Swanson<\/a>, professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHawaii and Mississippi stand out from each other and the U.S. as a whole in terms of health, education, and income,\u201d said Swanson.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42751\" target=\"_blank\">release an essay<\/a> on the topic on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zocalopublicsquare.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Z\u00f3calo Public Square<\/a><\/em> on Sept. 16, 2015. The not-for-profit ideas exchange board will have a discussion on \u201cWhat can Hawaii Teach America About Race?\u201d It is co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielkinouyeinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inouye Institute<\/a>. The essay will be available on Zocalo\u2018s website.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson used data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> (except life expectancy data, which comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>) to demonstrate race in America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/ucrtoday.ucr.edu\/31188\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race in the United States \u2013 Mississippi and Hawaii at Two Ends of the Spectrum UCR Today University of California, Riverdale 2015-09-04 Mojgan Sherkat (mojgan.sherkat@ucr.edu) RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) \u2013 There\u2019s a lot to learn about race in the United States through statistical figures alone, especially when comparisons are made between Hawaii and Mississippi, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,1459,394,20],"tags":[20961,911,10807,20962,20960,7518],"class_list":{"0":"post-42605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-articles","7":"category-census","8":"category-media-archive","9":"category-mississippi","10":"category-socialscience","11":"category-usa","12":"tag-david-swanson","13":"tag-hawaii","15":"tag-mojgan-sherkat","16":"tag-ucr-today","17":"tag-zocalo-public-square"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605","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=42605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42756,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605\/revisions\/42756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}