By Angela E. Oh (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Americans are confronted with the fact that we are a multi-racial, multi-cultural society that has yet to define a new vision, strategy or language that allows for the kind of transformation that integration once symbolized. A thorough and relevant assessment of our challenges in connection with race relations and … [Read more...] about “Today’s Integration Challenge” by Angela E. Oh (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
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“Categories Count” by Libero Della Piana (January-February 1995 P&R Issue)
By Libero Della Piana (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In the summer of 1993, several groups, spearheaded by the American Multi-Ethnic Association(AMFA) and Project RACE (Reclassify All Children Equally), urged the House Subcommittee on Census and Statistics to add "multiracial" as a category to the U.S. Census. These groups and others have won multiracial … [Read more...] about “Categories Count” by Libero Della Piana (January-February 1995 P&R Issue)
Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter?
Last fall, the House Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel, chaired by Rep. Thomas Sawyer (D-OH), held a series of hearings on modification of the existing racial categories used by the Census and on the larger question of whether it is proper for the government to classify people according to arbitrary distinctions of skin color and ancestry. The issue is of … [Read more...] about Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter?
