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Nicholas Jones of the US Census Bureau has just released a report on the multiracial respondents of the 2000 Census, We the People of More Than One Race in the United States.
This report provides a portrait of the Two or More Races population in the United States and discusses the twelve largest race combinations within […]

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UCBerkeley News follows up on their article of last week about four mixed students in order to highlight some additional thoughts from other members of the Berkeley community.
Thus, for me, race is an artificial construct, which isolates me from those unknowledgeable of the biracial experience. At the same time, my races help me […]

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There’s a good article on UC Berkeley’s NewsCenter that explores what it’s like to be a mixed student at that school, where 22.9% of undergrads self-identified as mixed in a 2004 survey. (Across the UC system, the average was 25.8 percent. ) The article details the divergent experiences of four students, but also does a […]

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A story in the Kalamazoo Gazette takes a look at the rising numbers of interracial marriages, the changes in anti-miscegenation laws, the attitude shifts, and then asks, have things really gotten better?
Davidson said it might be hard to determine how big an impact interracial marriages are having on race relations as a whole, but if […]

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We all thought that the next Census would hit us again in 2010. However, the Centre Daily Times explains that Pennsylvania residents (and others across the country) should soon expect to see Census forms appearing in their mailboxes. Interesting that this hasn’t gotten that much coverage to date…be on the lookout all!
Thanks to a change […]

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The Seattle Times ran an interesting article last week about a Pew Hispanic Center study on how Hispanics dealt with race in the 2000 census. Also check out the two stories we told you about on October 25, 2004: Census bureau may eliminate “some other race” category and How Latinos self-identified in Census 2000. […]