on getting questions about racial background via Jezebel.com
Themes: Race & Ethnicity
Growth of Multiple-Race Population
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2010 US Census shows the population identifying as multiple-race grew faster than single-race population
2011 American Community Survey released
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Detailed social, economic, demographic, and housing data from the U.S. Census Bureau
Occupations by Color and Nationality in 1890
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a 19th c. data visualization via HandsomeAtlas.com & Brooklyn Brainery
2nd Annual: What Are You?
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Let’s talk about race, ethnicity, and identity. Panelists will start the conversation and we hope you’ll join in.
Voces: Framing Narratives
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Visual artists, historians, and community activists discuss Puerto Rican communities in 1970s New York.
Can You See Race?
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In this episode of the award-winning radio program Radiolab, they take a look at race.
Who Is Black in America?
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Nicholas A. Jones, Chief of the Racial Statistics Branch of the US Census and Cynthia Gordy, The Root ~ via C-SPAN
Commentary on President Obama's Mixed Heritage
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via New York Magazine. An essay by John McWhorter
More News about President Obama's Ancestry
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via Ancestry.com: Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the American Colonies
"Who are your people?"
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Princeton professor and CBBG advisor Imani Perry reviews the book Help Me to Find My People
Jonathan Blazon
Oral History
"I’m revealing to myself that it still hurts that Chinese people think of me as being less Chinese -- of not being Chinese, actually. I shouldn’t say 'less.' They just don’t even consider me as being Chinese. And I hate it. I really do."
Bette Yee
Oral History
"...It was 1956, I was in the first grade, and I still hadn’t spoken any English. We really didn’t have a TV until we were -- until I was like seven or eight years old, and we didn’t even know what other kids had. We just knew that we were different, but we also felt that we were special."
Itamar Goldstein
Oral History
"Yiddish is German and Hebrew, and Yemenites have Hebrew and Arabic, and there’s the Sephardis have Ladino, which is Spanish and Hebrew. They’re all beautiful -- Yiddish is funny, but most of them are beautiful languages, they’re very poetic."
Sonnet Takahisa
Oral History
“I remember getting in trouble with a substitute teacher...I was looking at the window, and he said, 'You, sit down in your seat. You’re making a bad name for your race.' And I was like, 'Excuse me, but I’m probably the same race as you.'”
Alexander David
Oral History
"I was always the other…To the white kids I was Asian. To the Asian kids I was white. My girlfriend at the time was Asian and she considered me her white boyfriend."
Connection between storytelling and identity?
Discussion Topic
At the Identity & Oral History workshop at the Brooklyn Museum (grounded in the Question Bridge: Black Males exhibit), participants discussed important turning points in our lives and practiced deep listening skills, which inspired reflections on the role of storytelling and listening in our own liv
Map of Surnames in US
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Check out this map of common last names in the United States via National Geographic.
"Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black..."
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An Opinion piece by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Measuring the US Melting Pot
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An interactive map showing the distribution of certain ethnic heritages around the US.