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Important Article!

multiracial2020-09-29T05:48:59+00:00November 5th, 2017|

How Racial Data Gets 'Cleaned' in the U.S. Census The national survey offers more identity choices than ever—until those choices get scrubbed away. The 2010 United States Census allowed 63 possible responses for race. Ross D. Franklin / AP At a doctor’s visit, on a college-admissions application, or even in a consumer-marketing survey, Americans are regularly asked to classify themselves by race. Some protest this request by “declining to answer,” as forms often allow. After all, racial categories are social constructs. They don’t connote biological or genetic difference. As an [...]

Project RACE in the News!

multiracial2017-08-30T05:59:40+00:00August 30th, 2017|

http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-08-28/human-rights-racial-justice/could-multiracial-americans-ease-racial-tensions/a59186-1

Save the Census

multiracial2017-07-18T05:59:15+00:00July 18th, 2017|

Save the Census By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Source: The New York Times Photo A census bureau worker in Houston in 2010. Credit Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle, via Associated Press An administration uninterested in staffing federal agencies, at war with facts and eager to help Congress cut the budget is further endangering a cornerstone of American democracy: the duty to count all who live here. Every decade since 1790, as required by the Constitution, the federal government has undertaken a painstaking census of its people, the accuracy and fairness of which serves [...]

Census Problems

multiracial2020-09-29T05:26:14+00:00July 16th, 2017|

California would be the primary victim in a GOP war on the census The 2020 census is headed for a debacle, and California is among the states most likely to be victimized by it. Every 10 years, the Constitution requires the federal government to “enumerate” the nation’s residents. The count — traditionally accomplished by mailed questionnaires and house visits — determines political apportionment and the allocation of federal funds for the next decade. The problems faced by the 2020 census begin with its unrealistically low budget. At mostly Republican insistence, [...]

Census: US More Diverse

multiracial2017-06-22T08:45:55+00:00June 22nd, 2017|

Census: US more diverse, white population grows least By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press/Jun 22, 2017 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is growing older and more ethnically diverse, a trend that could strain government programs from Medicare to education, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. Every ethnic and racial group grew between 2015 and 2016, but the number of whites continued to increase at the slowest rate — less than one hundredth of 1 percent, or 5,000 people, the Census estimate shows. That's a fraction of the rates of growth for [...]

Census Director Quits

multiracial2017-05-09T19:36:22+00:00May 9th, 2017|

MAY 9 2017, 8:56 PM ET Census Director John H. Thompson Abruptly Quits People-Counting Agency by ASSOCIATED PRESS Print Census Bureau Director John H. Thompson was expected to leave the agency at the end of the year but instead will depart June 30, according to a government statement. Thompson said he is pursuing "opportunities in the private sector.""Your experience will be greatly missed," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in the same statement. Census Director John Thompson poses for a portrait in this undated handout image. U.S. CensusThompson testified to a [...]

The Canadian Census

multiracial2020-09-29T05:25:18+00:00May 1st, 2017|

The Canadian Census The categories in the drop down menu include: White Chinese South Asian Black Filipino Latin American Southeast Asian Arab West Asian Japanese Korean Other

Affirmative Action?

multiracial2017-04-10T10:51:51+00:00April 10th, 2017|

Affirmative Action? by Susan Graham for Project RACE If you think multiracial people have racial and ethnic problems in the United States, just look at what’s happening in Brazil. Forty-three percent of Brazilians self-identify as part pardo or brown. In the United States, multiracial people are about seven percent of the population. Their census has 136 classifications and ours has 57 for multiracial combinations. Brazilians often do not identify as white or black, but fall into an assortment of names like dark nut, burnt white, and copper. It reminds me [...]

A Washington Bad Cop/Bad Cop Story

multiracial2020-09-29T02:18:05+00:00March 12th, 2017|

A Washington Bad Cop/Bad Cop Story by Susan Graham for Project RACE (Reclassify All Children Equally) Everyone knows about the U.S. Census Bureau (CB), but not everyone has heard of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The CB counts important things in the United States, including people—by things like race and ethnicity. The OMB decides what race and ethnicity people can be in the United States. They are both bad cops. Sometimes they try and play a game called Bad Cop/Good Cop, in which they go back and forth [...]

Israelis to be Middle Eastern

multiracial2020-09-29T05:36:11+00:00March 4th, 2017|

Yesterday the US Census Bureau and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) handed down their recommendation for a new race and ethnicity classification in the US: Middle Eastern and North African (MENA). This means that every Israeli in the US who formally was classified as White will be Middle Eastern. -Susan Graham, Project RACE