Voices Stories from The Nation
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Not-Black by default
Last week, Melissa Harris-Lacewell wrote an insightful column, "Black by Choice," about President Obama's having checked the box marked "Black, African American or Negro" on his Census form. As she notes, despite the way his complex heritage both disrupts "standard definitions of blackness" and creates "a definitional crisis for whiteness," in American culture "having a white parent has never meant becoming white" if one also has an African-descended parent. more>
Reaching the hard-to-count: The Census and the undocumented
"I know what didn't work. What didn't work was the '10 questions in 10 minutes [slogan],'" said Maureen Ramirez, director of the Minnesota Civic Engagement Table, which has been heavily involved with Census outreach in Minneapolis. more>
