SAN FRANCISCO -- The debate over the citizenship question is just the latest controversy that has surrounded the questionnaire since it began in 1790. That first census only asked if respondents were ...
Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page highlights the problems with relying on a race-classification system created in a different era. Suggested Reading 11 Times The Extreme Right Got Their Karma ...
When the 2020 census results were released, they showed a boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010. Two Princeton sociologists now say that jump was ...
WASHINGTON (AP) – When the 2010 census asked people to classify themselves by race, more than 21.7 million _ at least 1 in 14 _ went beyond the standard labels and wrote in such terms as “Arab,” ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Biden Joe Biden speaks at a Hispanic Heritage Month 2022 reception at the White House. Just who counts as 'Hispanic' in ...
A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in census data-gathering caught my attention while Web surfing. It appeared on the black-oriented website TheRoot.com under this eye-catching ...
As I opened an email from my local grocery store chain advertising Hispanic Heritage Month – which runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 each year – I was surprised to see it highlighting recipes from four ...