A project of Brooklyn Historical Society
 
 
 
 

Project News

an episode of State of the Re:Union
 
May 25
“Baby brother or sister, will you look like me?”
 
Apr 18
How do you describe your Race on the U.S. Census?
 
Mar 30
Genealogy workshop with Wilhelmena Kelly
 
Mar 16
8-session literature and writing workshop focusing on stories that reflect experiences of race and identity
 
Readers share thoughts on being mixed race in Britain via The Guardian
 
A documentary-in-progress about the rise of multiracial people
 
Sady Sullivan reports back from Baltimore
 
Rita Kamani-Renedo reports back from Chicago
 
Talk about how biracial identity influences their comedy (via Bullseye with Jesse Thorn)
 
“Princess Sofia is a mixed-heritage princess in a fairy-tale world." via NBCLatino
 
Photographs from a great event!
 
on getting questions about racial background via Jezebel.com
 
2010 US Census shows the population identifying as multiple-race grew faster than single-race population
 
Detailed social, economic, demographic, and housing data from the U.S. Census Bureau
 
a 19th c. data visualization via HandsomeAtlas.com & Brooklyn Brainery
 
Oct 4
Let’s talk about race, ethnicity, and identity. Panelists will start the conversation and we hope you’ll join in.
 
Oct 17
Visual artists, historians, and community activists discuss Puerto Rican communities in 1970s New York.
 
In this episode of the award-winning radio program Radiolab, they take a look at race.
 
Nicholas A. Jones, Chief of the Racial Statistics Branch of the US Census and Cynthia Gordy, The Root ~ via C-SPAN
 

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