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ISSUES - Census 2000
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Related: The Multiracial Activist - ISSUES: Multiracial Classification and Identity New categories cause confusion: 'Law of unintended consequences' overtakes census by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette) http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.05/15-census.html (February 5, 2004)
More Than Black and White (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/opinion/20FRI2.html (June 20, 2003)
The Reality of Interracial Marriages by Bill Lee (The Multiracial Activist) http://www.multiracial.com/readers/lee.html (June/July 2003)
Census ex-director details trends in race identity by Jack Chang (Contra Costa Times) http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/5777201.htm (May 3, 2003)
Censuring the Census (Harvard Magazine) http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/030373.html (March/April 2003)
Integrated People, Integrated Places - Multirace Residents Pick Neighborhoods of Diversity by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14243-2002Jul28.html (July 29, 2002)
State's racial mix leads nation in ethnic diversity by Rod Ohira (The Honolulu Advertiser) http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Jul/14/ln/ln11a.html (July 14, 2002)
Hawai'i boasts ethnic tapestry by Rod Ohira (The Honolulu Advertiser) http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Jul/14/ln/ln10a.html (July 14, 2002)
A new nationalism on the rise: Census finds more people identify themselves, sans hyphen, as 'American.' by Laurent Belsie (Kingsport Times-News) http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0611/p02s02-ussc.html (June 11, 2002)
Rethinking Who They Are: Census Shows People Are Declining to Report Their Heritage by Michael Powell (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7262-2002May24.html (May 25, 2002)
Debated census data linked to immigration by Eric Badertscher (United Press International) http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=02052002-023907-8006r (May 2, 2002)
Melting Pot: America More Diverse (The Charleston Gazette) http://wvgazette.com/news/Editorials/200204246/ (April 24, 2002)
Do the Math, Marketers: Biracial Americans Grow in Number (DiversityInc.com) http://www.diversityinc.com/public/department19.cfm (April 19, 2002)
Census Drives Marketing Strategies: More Detailed Population Numbers Drive New Marketing Strategies (ABCNews.com/Associated Press) http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20020419_144.html (April 19, 2002)
New Census Chief Faces Old Disputes, Fresh Tests by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10678-2002Apr7.html (April 8, 2002)
Opponents renew census challenge by Frank J. Murray (The Washington Times) http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020225-692803.htm (February 25, 2002)
Census News: At Least 249 Racial, Ethnic Combinations in U.S. by Matthew Valia (DiversityInc.com) http://www.diversityinc.com/public/2049.cfm (December 27, 2001)
American Indians on the rise: Their numbers more than doubled in a decade; here's why 'it's cool to be
Indian' by Sara Steindorf (The Christian Science Monitor) http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1206/p11s1-ussc.html (December 6, 2001)
Multiracial Americans counted by Genaro C. Armas (The Washington Times/Associated Press) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011130-54450214.htm (November 30, 2001)
Census Multiracial Glance (The New York Times/Associated Press) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Census-Glance.html (November 29, 2001)
American Mixed Race: The U.S. 2000 Census and Related Issues by Naomi Zack (INTERRACIAL VOICE) http://interracialvoice.com/zack.html (November/December 2001)
Blacks, whites still geographically divided, data show by Christina Ling (Philadelphia Inquirer/Reuters) http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/08/13/national/CENSUS13.htm (August 13, 2001)
An educational defense for multiracial identity - Celebrate rather than assimilate biracial heritages by Kimberly Cooper-Plaszewski (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/25/ED225347.DTL (July 25, 2001)
Mixed results: Indiana's multiracial classification doesn't measure up by Rebecca Bibbs (NUVO.net) http://www.nuvo.net/archive/071201/local/071201_local_a.html (July 12, 2001)
Profile rises for multiracial people by Laurent Belsie (Christian Science Monitor) http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/07/17/fp3s1-csm.shtml (July 17, 2001)
Making sense of the new census Is America on the verge of transcending race? by Gary Gerstle (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/07/11/ED231414.DTL (July 11, 2001)
Why I checked black on the census by Lee Hubbard (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/07/11/ED76120.DTL (July 11, 2001)
33,871,648 Hispanics Now Make Up Third Of Californians - RACE: Whites no longer a majority by Carol Ness, Erin McCormick (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/30/MN121959.DTL (July 11, 2001)
Meaningless Numbers - A profile in spin. by Roger Clegg (National Review) http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/clegg062901.shtml (June 29, 2001)
Census Shows Youth of Multiracials by Genaro C. Armas (Associated Press) http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010620/00/census-multiracial (June 20, 2001)
Feds implement perpetual census by Julie Foster (WorldNetDaily) http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23269 (June 16, 2001)
Dealing with fuzzy math by Kate Wiltrout (Savannah Morning News) http://www.savannahmorningnews.com/stories/060201/LOCfuzzy.shtml (June 2, 2001)
From the margins to the middle by Kate Wiltrout (Savannah Morning News) http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/060201/LOCcensusrace.shtml (June 2, 2001)
New choices on 2000 census fail to offer right racial fit for Latinos by Anne Martinez (The San Jose Mercury News) http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/other25.htm (May 25, 2001)
Funny Numbers Pervade Census Data by John Leo (TownHall.com) http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20010520.shtml (May 20, 2001)
Multi-racial Options
by Philip Martin (NPR - Morning Edition) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010518.me.03.ram - 14.4 speed
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010518.me.03.rmm - 28.8 speed (May 18, 2001)
America: A Melting Pot (CBS - The Early Show) http://cbsnews.com/earlyshow/living/home/20010501mixedblessing_multicultural.shtml (May 1, 2001)
How Many Multiracials? by George Winkel (INTERRACIAL VOICE) http://www.interracialvoice.com/gwinkel9.html (May/June 2001)
Toledo reflects nation's trend toward diversity by Sandra Svoboda (The Toledo Blade) http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010417&Kategori=NEWS16&Lopenr=104170014&Ref=AR (April 17, 2001)
A New Way To Measure America (Tolerance.org) http://tolerance.org/news/article_tol.jsp?id=140 (April 2001)
Multiracial census choices add up by Dwight R. Worley (The Journal News) http://www.thejournalnews.com/HomePage/041101/11censusrk/ (April 11, 2001)
How Census Results Could Redefine America's Definition Of Black (Jet) http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1355/16_99/72960892/print.jhtml (April 2, 2001)
Hawaiians Exiting the Homogenous Zone by Tony Perry (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010402/t000028222.html (April 2, 2001)
White or Black Is Thorny Question for Puerto Ricans by Ivan Roman (The Salt Lake Tribune) http://www.sltrib.com/04012001/nation_w/84720.htm (April 1, 2001)
Blacks Split on Disclosing Multiracial Roots by Eric Schmitt (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/31/national/31RACE.html (March 31, 2001)
Mixed-Race Americans Are Happy To Finally Make The Count by Ryan Kim and Carol Ness (The San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/30/MNKIM.DTL (March 30, 2001)
A Question of Identity by Todd Nelson (The St. Paul Pioneer Press) http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/fri/news/docs/025437.htm (March 30, 2001)
2000 Census results find more in Arkansas, nation claiming to be Indians by Violet S. Law (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/ark/B1xndian26.html (March 26, 2001)
Lise Funderburg and the Truth about One-Drop by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE) http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor28.html (March/April 2001)
Multiracial Identities Alarm Some Groups by Justin Pritchard (The Salt Lake Tribune/Associated Press) http://www.sltrib.com/03252001/nation_w/82755.htm (March 25, 2001)
The changing face of who we are by Thomas Ginsberg and Deborah Bolling (The Philadelphia Inquirer) http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/03/25/city/MULTI25.htm (March 25, 2001)
Intermarriages rise, reflecting U.S. changes by Tony Pugh (The Philadelphia Inquirer) http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/03/24/front_page/MARRY24.htm (March 25, 2001)
There's No Box To Account For Our History by Sydney Trent (anti-multiracial ranter) (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51878-2001Mar24.html (March 25, 2001)
Young people feel more comfortable with 'mixed-race' label than their elders by Kirk Kicklighter (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/local_news_a3db5806a16381a700fe.html (March 25, 2001)
Census' expanded racial identities open up a can of 'miscellaneous' by Kirk Kicklighter (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/local_news_a3db5856a163a105003f.html (March 25, 2001)
The Multiracial Count by David R. Harris (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51414-2001Mar23.html (March 24, 2001)
Surprise: Small towns are more diverse than big cities by D. Parvaz (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/multi24.shtml (March 24, 2001)
A blending of identities: Census shows large increase in minorities by Florangela Davila (The Seattle Times) http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=censrace24m&date=20010324 (March 24, 2001)
Multiracial identity, a shared destiny by Gregory Rodriquez (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/mar01/rodriguez25032401.asp (March 24, 2001)
What the Census Doesn't Count by Russell Thornton (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/23/opinion/23THOR.html (March 23, 2001)
Census 2000 finds interracial couples number 1.5 million by Tony Pugh (The San Jose Mercury News) http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/marriage23.htm (March 23, 2001)
Some Atlantans embrace racial variation by Kirk Kicklighter (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/news_a3ab7f9036e981c400a6.html (March 23, 2001)
Census shows a multiracial nation by Clarence Page (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/opinion/page23.shtml (March 23, 2001)
Census' racial category change makes comparison difficult by Marc Dadigan (Daily Illini) http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010321/university-87 (March 21, 2001)
A New Language on Race by Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/page/ (March 21, 2001)
Race mix greater in Alaska - CENSUS: More than 5 percent of residents report racially mixed heritage, well above U.S. average. by Sheila Toomey (Anchorage Daily News) http://www.adn.com/nation/story/0,2360,250486,00.html (March 21, 2001)
I Am What I Say I Am by Lise Funderburg (Time) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,102936,00.html (March 26, 2001)
How Many Multiracials? by George Winkel (The Multiracial Activist) http://www.multiracial.com/readers/winkel2.html (April/May 2001)
Politics, culture cloud race data by Angie Chuang (The Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/01/03/lc_31mult20.frame (March 20, 2001)
Census 2000 blurs black-or-white issue by Leonard Sykes, Jr. (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/mar01/multi19031801a.asp (March 18, 2001)
Census data will touch many - what will the numbers show? by Jason Sandford (The Asheville Citizen-Times) http://www.citizen-times.com/news/03792304.shtml (March 18, 2001)
The Future Americans by Gregory Rodriguez (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/20010318/t000023565.html (March 18, 2001)
Indian Ancestry Makes Mark on Census by Ellyn Ferguson (The Salt Lake Tribune) http://www.sltrib.com/03182001/nation_w/80779.htm (March 18, 2001)
A Hibernian in the woodpile by George Kelly (Salon) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/17/black/index.html (March 17, 2001)
Counting the Mix by Daryl Lindsey (Salon) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/16/census/index.html (March 16, 2001)
Transcript: As Race Becomes Harder to Define, Will Classifications Continue to Be Necessary? (With Beth Gray of INTERRACIAL VOICE) (CNN - Talk Back Live) http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/15/tl.00.html (March 15, 2001)
EDITORIAL: Census Bureau must work to create categories for everyone (The State News) http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010314/university-55 (March 14, 2001)
Primary Colours (The Economist) http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=533910 (March 15, 2001)
No Longer Black, White, Brown: Census Paints Race in New Shades by Linda Bean (DiversityInc.com) http://www.diversityinc.com/insidearticlepg.cfm?SubMenuID=330&ArticleID=2610&CFID=1258558&CFTOKEN=3781411 (March 15, 2001)
Kiss Me - I'm White by Rob Morse (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/14/MN219094.DTL (March 14, 2001)
Back in the Box: The Dilemma of Using Multiple-Race Data for Single-Race Laws by Joshua R. Goldstein and Ann J. Morning (Office of Population Research, Princeton University) http://opr.princeton.edu/~josh/bardnew.pdf (March 9, 2001)
Census 2000 - Roundtable Discussion: Lust for Statistics by John Fetto (American Demographics) http://www.demographics.com/publications/ad/01_ad/0103_ad/ad010303.htm (March 2001)
Census Results - Interview with Dr. Francis Wardle of the Center for the Study of Biracial Children and other guests (The Diane Rehm Show) http://www.wamu.org/ram/2001/r1010314.ram (March 14, 2001)
Multiracial Identification Might Affect Programs by Eric Schmitt (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/14/national/14CENS.html (March 14, 2001)
Portraits of America: Multiracial Growth and More Diversity by D'Vera Cohn and Darryl Fears (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/13368.html (March 14, 2001)
Multiracial -- a new way of thinking by D. Parvaz (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/more14.shtml (March 14, 2001)
6.8 million call themselves multiracial by Tony Pugh (The Beacon Journal) http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/national/docs/003229.htm (March 14, 2001)
Young Americans more multiracial by Tony Pugh (MSNBC/Associated Press) http://www.msnbc.com/news/543605.asp?cp1=1 (March 14, 2001)
More young people are multiracial by Mark Skertic (Chicago Sun-Times) http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cens13.html (March 14, 2001)
Hispanic population booms by Leah Rae and Cathey O'Donnell (The Journal News) http://www.thejournalnews.com/HomePage/031301/13hispanic/ (March 13, 2001)
Census 2000 by Philip Martin (NPR - Morning Edition) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010313.me.11.ram - 14.4 speed
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010313.me.11.rmm - 28.8 speed (March 13, 2001)
Nation's totem pole gets a realignment by William Raspberry (The Seattle Times) http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=raspberry13&date=20010313 (March 13, 2001)
Mixed-Race Categories: Clarity or Confusion? by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60433-2001Mar12.html (March 13, 2001)
Census 'can of worms' makes experts squirm by Stuart Eskenazi (The Seattle Times) http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=census13m&date=20010313 (March 13, 2001)
A Fresh Face On Race by Mike Swift (The Hartford Courant) http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=4154796&render=y&ck=&ver=2.5 (March 13, 2001)
126 races on census make for 1 big mess by Alicia Caldwell (St. Petersburg Times) http://www.sptimes.com/News/031301/TampaBay/126_races_on_census_m.shtml (March 13, 2001)
Census Illustrates Diversity From Sea To Shining Sea by Rick Rosenblatt (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010313/t000021979.html (March 13, 2001)
Nation's races a complex picture by John Hubner (The San Jose Mercury News) http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/multirace13.htm (March 13, 2001)
Impact of Census' race data debated - Some say it will divide country; others say unite by Martin Kasindorf and Haya El Nasser (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010313/3132778s.htm (March 13, 2001)
Multiracial Growth Seen In Census - Numbers Show Diversity, Complexity of U.S. Count by D'Vera Cohn and Darryl Fears (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58956-2001Mar12.html (March 13, 2001)
1 in 3 Americans is in a minority: Census shows diverse nation by D'Vera Cohn and Darryl Fears (The Seattle Times) http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=race130&date=20010313 (March 13, 2001)
Latino replies complicate census' 1st multiracial tally by Thomas Ginsberg (The Philadelphia Inquirer) http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/03/13/front_page/RACE13.htm (March 13, 2001)
For 7 Million People in Census, One Race Category Isn't Enough by Eric Schmitt (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/13/national/13CENS.html (March 13, 2001)
Census confirms surge in minorities by Charles W. Holmes and Dan Chapman (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_a3da1c5b959d50e81070.html (March 13, 2001)
Millions claim multiple races - Census broadens its range of racial classifications by Kirk Kicklighter (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_a3da1c2b959d62221050.html (March 13, 2001)
State sees rise in multiracial births by Angie Chuang and Betsy Hammond (The Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/01/03/lc_21multi12.frame (March 12, 2001)
Transcript of Wolf Blitzer Report on Multiracial America (CNN) http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/12/wbr.00.html (March 12, 2001)
AMEA Responds to Multiracial Census Data (Association of MultiEthnic Americans) http://www.multiracial.com/news/pr20010312amea.html (March 12, 2001)
Census Bureau Briefs Reporters on Census 2000 Race and Hispanic-Origin Findings (U.S. Census Bureau) http://www.connectlive.com/events/census/census-031201-28k.ram (March 12, 2001)
Project RACE Declares War on the World (or Letting Your Ego Run The Show) by James A. Landrith, Jr. (The Multiracial Activist) http://www.multiracial.com/editors/grahamgoesoverboard.html (March 12, 2001)
Multiracial Pride Shows Up In New Census
Mixed heritage now recognized by Carol Ness (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/12/MN173582.DTL (March 12, 2001)
A more colorful country (Chicago Sun-Times) http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cen12.html (March 12, 2001)
Census redefines race, diversity - AMERICANS RETHINK CLASSIFICATIONS AS MIXED-HERITAGE NUMBERS GROW by Anne Martinez (San Jose Mercury News) http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/mixedrace12.htm (March 12, 2001)
Broader Palette Allows for Subtler Census Portrait by Eric Schmitt (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/12/national/12CENS.html (March 12, 2001)
One race enough for most by Ramona Smith (Philadelphia Daily News) http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/03/12/local/MIXX12.htm (March 12, 2001)
Separation of Race and State by Deroy Murdock (National Review) http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock031201.shtml (March 12, 2001)
No Need for 57 Census Varieties by Felicia Clark (Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/print/editorials/20010310/t000020983.html (March 10, 2001)
Sense and the Census (The Wall Street Journal) http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=85000691 (March 10, 2001)
N.Va.'s Growth Outpaces State's - Census Shows Huge Jump in Minorities by D'Vera Cohn and Carol Morello (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43566-2001Mar8.html (March 9, 2001)
Census Figures Show Hispanics Pulling Even With Blacks by Eric Schmitt (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/08/national/08CENS.html (March 8, 2001)
Census: Hispanic population rose 58 percent in decade by Tony Pugh (The Philadelphia Inquirer) http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/03/08/national/CENSUS08.htm (March 8, 2001)
Hispanics Match Black Populace in U.S. Census by Carol Ness (The San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/08/MN220004.DTL (March 8, 2001)
Census shows greater numbers of Hispanics by Haya El Nassar (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010308/3120920s.htm (March 8, 2001)
Census Sense and Nonsense by Roger Clegg (National Review) http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/clegg030701.shtml (March 7, 2001)
Hispanics Draw Even With Blacks In New Census by D'Vera Cohn and Darryl Fears (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32121-2001Mar6.html (March 7, 2001)
Race data complicate new voting districts by August Gribbin (The Washington Times) http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200135224326.htm (March 5, 2001)
Census' Multiracial Option Overturns Traditional Views by Solomon Moore (Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010305/t000019565.html (March 5, 2001)
Changing the way we think about race by Solomon Moore (Seattle Times) http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=census050&date=20010305 (March 5, 2001)
Racial categories in census have changed widely over the years by John Kamman (The Arizona Republic) http://www.azcentral.com/news/0304censusrace.html (March 4, 2001)
Census 2000: Paving the Way for Changes to Our Educational System by Kimberly Cooper-Plaszewski, M.Ed. (INTERRACIAL VOICE) http://www.interracialvoice.com/kimberly4.html (March/April 2001)
Census to define multiracial in myriad ways by Haya El Nasser (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/life/2001-02-28-multiracial.htm (February 28, 2001)
Race and the Census by Mike Walter (USA Today) http://play.rbn.com/?url=usat/usat/g2demand/010227_race.smil&proto=rtsp (February 28, 2001)
WITH NEW CENSUS FIGURES: Expect more racial gerrymandering by Linda Chavez (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/today/opinion_a3c9eab8f0a032f21061.html (February 28, 2001)
Agencies, others await census tally on U.S. multiracial makeup by Thomas Ginsberg (The Seattle Times/Knight Ridder) http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=race25&date=20010225 (February 25, 2001)
Addressing new multiracial categories by Thomas Ginsberg (The Philadelphia Inquirer) http://cofaxinq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/02/25/national/RACE25.htm (February 25, 2001)
Census broadens race category: March data expected to reveal clearer racial picture by Natalie Singer (The Desert Sun) http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories/local/982903531.shtml (February 23, 2001)
Questions mirror trends in society by Natalie Singer (The Desert Sun) http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories/local/982903952.shtml (February 23, 2001)
Numbers define us less and less by Diana Griego Erwin (The Sacramento Bee) http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local05_20010222.html (February 22, 2001)
Many skip multirace census box: Despite efforts of activists, just 2% use new format. by Oralander Brand-Williams (The Detroit News) http://www.detnews.com/2001/nation/0102/22/a01-191446.htm (February 22, 2001)
History Counts by Melissa Nobles (The Boston Globe) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/049/oped/History_Counts+.shtml (February 18, 2001)
Census Bureau Is Losing Authority to Adjust the 2000 Count by Robert A. Rosenblatt (Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010217/t000014415.html (February 17, 2001)
Does It All Add Up? New census race categories raise questions about how they're used by Olivia Winslow (Newsday) http://www.newsday.com/news/daily/licensus11.htm (February 11, 2001)
New Racial Choices in Census Pose Tricky Issue by Evan Osnos and David Mendell (Chicago Tribune) http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,2669,SAV-0102050186,FF.html (February 5, 2001)
Census to reflect area's diversity - Forms allowed residents to select multiple racial categories by Kevin J. Shay (The Arlington (Texas) Morning News) http://www.arlington.com/metro/arlington_news/273514_AMNCENSUS28.html (January 28, 2001)
Census' Race Categories Mirror Social Awareness/Changes in Ethnic Terms Underscore Debate Over Labels by Frank O. Sotomayor (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/07/MN174865.DTL (January 7, 2001)
Census Reflects U.S. Diversity by Frank O. Sotomayor (The Houston Chronicle) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/page1/788745 (January 7, 2001)
U.S. Census now recognizes 'multiracial' identities by Cindy Rodriguez (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/cens16.shtml (December 16, 2000)
Here's a radical thought: If we stop obsessing on race, people may actually become colorblind by Robyn Blumner (Jewish World Review) http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/blumner1.asp (December 7, 2000)
Census 2000 lives on: Many citizens now receiving 23-page
'American Community Survey' by Julie Foster (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18022 (December 6, 2000)
Bursting Asunder: Census 2000 and America's Regime of Race Data Collection by M. Royce Van Tassell (INTERRACIAL VOICE) http://www.webcom.com/~intvoice/royce.html (November/December 2000)
Democrats Criticize Census Data Sharing by cicero (cluebot.com) http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/25/2351218&mode=nested (October 25, 2000)
My Data, Mine To Keep Private by Linda R. Monk (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/opinion/23MONK.html (October 23, 2000)
CBO Request For Census, Tax Records Raises Fears by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63250-2000Oct12.html (October 13, 2000)
At GOP's Behest, GAO Is Checking Census E-Mail by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/A57698-2000Aug8.html (August 8, 2000)
Census reports early data on people who check more than one race by D'Vera Cohn (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/2000/religion/0008/14/08080003.htm (August 8, 2000)
Americans Are Tired of Racial Boxes by M. Royce Van Tassell (The Abolitionist Examiner) http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/vantassell.html (August/September 2000)
The Death of the One-Drop Rule: R.I.P. by M. Royce Van Tassell (The Abolitionist Examiner) http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/vantassell2.html (August/September 2000)
Census Race Question Has Limited Impact by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4680-2000Jul30.html (July 30, 2000)
Biracial Parents Defy Check Boxes by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54696-2000Jul16.html (July 17, 2000)
Lawmaker faults 16 census offices by Rick Klein (The Dallas Morning News) http://dallasnews.com/national/117779_nucensus_26nat.html (July 26, 2000)
Will 2010 Census Offer Multiracial Box? by F.R. Duplantier (America's Future) http://www.americasfuture.net/2000/jul00/00-0709b.html (July 9, 2000)
Census forms and 'other' boxes leave people out of mix by Sheena Harrison (The State News) http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000706/university-94 (July 7, 2000)
'Constitution is stupid,' argues Census worker: Michigan family decries abuse by 'Cens-less' Burea worker by Julie Foster (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17910 (June 19, 2000)
Census Bureau asks thy neighbor: Enumerators resort to getting information 'by proxy' by Julie Foster (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17907 (June 16, 2000)
A New American Race? by Amitai Etzioni (The Multiracial Activist) http://www.multiracial.com/readers/etzioni.html (June/July 2000)
One Drop Too Many by Ron Bronson, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner) http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/bronson.html (June/July 2000)
I Don't Want to be Black Anymore by J.J. Johnson (The Abolitionist Examiner) http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/johnson.html (June/July 2000)
Do You Feel Like a Number Yet? by J.J. Johnson (The Abolitionist Examiner) http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/johnson2.html (June/July 2000)
Counting Blacks in U.S. Census 2000 by Tanu T. Henry (Africana.com) http://africana.com/index_20000530.htm (May 30, 2000)
Island Voices: Our race? All of the above by Susan Miho Nunes (The Honolulu Advertiser) http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/May/25/opinion14.html (May 25, 2000)
Will Dissing the Census End Up Clouding the Count? (Business Week) http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2000/nf00522e.htm (May 22, 2000)
Hiring of ex-convict stuns Census Bureau by Dong-Phuoung Nguyen (San Diego Union Tribune) http://www.uniontrib.com/news/metro/20000517-0010_3m17census.html (May 17, 2000)
Press Release: Multiple race option in census may be more popular than expected (Princeton University) http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/pu-mro051200.html (May 15, 2000)
Biracial? Actually, he's always considered himself black by Nick Carter (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/may00/carter14051300.asp (May 13, 2000)
Not Black or White: Multiracial Identities Gaining Favor by Amy Collins (ABCNews.com) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/multiethnic000509.html (May 9, 2000)
Some Indians say multi-race census choice not a positive by David Hanners (St Paul Pioneer Press) http://www.pioneerplanet.com/search?NS-search-page=document&NS-rel-doc-name=/news/mtc_docs/033772.htm (May 7, 2000)
Not Black or White: Multiracial Identities Gaining Favor by Amy Collins (ABC News ) http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dailynews/multiethnic000504.html (May 4, 2000)
Some Census workers feeling the heat of hostility, suspicion by Tom Kenworthy (USA Today) http://usatoday.com/news/ndsmon06.htm (May 1, 2000)
Latinos Drawing a Blank on Census Race Question (Salt Lake Tribune) http://www.sltrib.com/04292000/nation_w/45137.htm (April 29, 2000)
Metro census is mixed picture by Dan Hulbert (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/wednesday/news_9360a832704bf07d1030.html (April 26, 2000)
Letter to the Editor: Census by Angie Moxey (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20000426/t000039363.html (April 26, 2000)
Why the census makes me sleep under a bench by Joelle Cowan (Liberzine) http://www.liberzine.com/joellecowan/000425census.htm (April 25, 2000)
The 'race' question on the U.S. census is racist by Bob Curtis (The Abolitionist Examiner) http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/curtis.html (April/May 2000)
Checking Pandora's Box: The Pitfalls of Census 2000 by Jonathan Tilove (The American Prospect) http://www.americanprospect.org/archives/V11-11/tilove-j.html (April 24, 2000)
The New Census and Race in America by Jonathan Tilove (Newhouse News Service) http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1a042100.html (April 21, 2000)
House bill would limit census by Julie Foster (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17862 (April 21, 2000)
The Census' Race Problem by Dawn Stover
(The New York Times) http://www10.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/19stov.html (April 19, 2000)
One Drop-Still: A racialist's Census by Stephan Thernstrom (National Review) http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_national_review-one_drop-stil.htm (April 17, 2000)
An Ethnic Strategy on the Census by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
(The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000417/t000036240.html (April 17, 2000)
Why Census Is Right to Ask For Racial and Ethnic Data by Peter Skerry (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20000416/t000035786.html (April 16, 2000)
Census 'long forms' unevenly distributed by Julie Foster (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17853 (April 12, 2000)
Census 2000 form ablaze with 32,767 racial, ethnic colors by Dorothy Korber (The Sacramento Bee) http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local02_20000412.html (April 12, 2000)
Race Question Shakes Up Census by Dorothy Korber (Rocky Mountain News) http://insidedenver.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=CENSUS-04-11-00&cat=AN (April 11, 2000)
Census 2000 reaches frist target with 61 percent response rate (CNN/Associated Press) http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/04/11/censusresponse.ap/index.html (April 11, 2000)
Census reflects Hawaii's ethnic variety by Yasmin Anwar (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000410/2126544s.htm (April 10, 2000)
Census suit raises privacy questions by Rick Klein (The Dallas Morning News) http://dallasnews.com/metro/62300_CENSUS10.html (April 10, 2000)
Census forms allow for multiracial identification for respondents by Sandra Marquez Garcia (The Miami Herald) http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/dade/northwest/digdocs/000754.htm (April 9, 2000)
Intrusive government, intrusive questions (The Washington Times) http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/ed-house-2000481851.htm (April 8, 2000)
Senate wants no fines for not completing census by Rick Klein (The Dallas Morning News) http://dallasnews.com/national/61547_CENSUS08.html (April 8, 2000)
Behind, new, wacky census --- a new ticket for federal spoils by Tony Snow (Jewish World Review) http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tony/snow1.asp (April 7, 2000)
Census long form may be eliminated by Rick Klein (The Dallas Morning News) http://dallasnews.com/metro/61262_CENSUS07.html (April 7, 2000)
A New American Race by Amitai Etzioni (IntellectualCapital) http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue362/item8975.asp (April 6, 2000)
Census' racial projections raise fears, researcher says by Monica L. Haynes (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20000406census2.asp (April 6, 2000)
Compared to 1990, state's census return rate drop is nation's worst by Jack Norman (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/apr00/census05040400a.asp (April 5, 2000)
Census publicity campaign targets Texas' low response rates by Rick Klein (The Dallas Morning News) http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/60070_CENSUS05.html (April 5, 2000)
U.S. multiracial populations are counted more accurately by Genevieve Marshall (The Morning Call) http://www.mcall.com:80/html/news/bethlehm/b1biracialb.htm (April 5, 2000)
Short Take: Census Rebellion by J.D. Tuccille (About.com) http://civilliberty.about.com/newsissues/civilliberty/library/briefs/bl040500.htm (April 5, 2000)
Privacy May Affect Census Response by Genaro C. Armas (Associated Press) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000405/pl/census_response_5.html (April 5, 2000)
Census 2000: You May Already Be A Winner! by Tom G. Palmer (Slate) http://slate.msn.com/Features/census/census.asp (April 4, 2000)
The Federal Leviathan is Counting on You by Dave Kopel (Cato - Today's Commentary) http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-04-00.html (April 4, 2000)
"Just Say No To Nosy Census Questions" campaign generates national media coverage (Libertarian Party) http://www.multiracial.com/news/pr20000403.html (April 3, 2000)
Census lands in middle of a privacy backlash by Jim Stingl and Jack Norman (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/apr00/census04040300a.asp (April 3, 2000)
Senseless count adds up to intrusion by Don Feder (The Boston Herald) http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/feder04032000.htm (April 3, 2000)
Check All That Apply: Census 2000 lets people make their mark when on race by Lisa Gutierrez (The Kansas City Star) http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/fyi.pat,fyi/37745bc2.401,.html (April 2, 2000)
Challenge to Census Bureau Planned (UPI) http://www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CooBfWbebDxmTy2vUC3vZ&FQ=v%25upi&Title=Headlines%20for%3A%20v%25upi%0A (April 2, 2000)
With more than an accurate count at stake, what do you check if you're more than one of the above by Thomas Ginsberg and Nita Lelyveld (The Philadelphia Inquirer) http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Apr/02/front_page/PCENSUS02.htm (April 2, 2000)
Connerly joins foes of 'silly' queries on census forms: He weighs ballot drive to limit race data by Herbert A. Sample (Capitol Alert) http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert02_20000401.html (April 1, 2000)
Race and the Census (The Boston Globe) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/092/editorials/Race_and_the_census+.shtml (April 1, 2000)
The 'Multiracist' Census (NYU J.Post) http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/journal/race_class/census.html (April 2000)
Letter to Project RACE Regarding Multiple Response Sampling by Kenneth Prewitt (U.S. Census Bureau) http://www.multiracial.com/letters/prewitt3.html (March 31, 2000)
Racial Identity on the US Census Forms (C-SPAN) http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/ldrive/e033100_census.rm (March 31, 2000)
Racial Identity on the US Census Forms (C-SPAN) http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=149640122 (March 31, 2000)
U.S. Census Questions Are Too Invasive and Put Your Privacy at Risk by Robyn Blumner (Salt Lake Tribune) http://www.sltrib.com/2000/mar/03312000/commenta/37401.htm (March 31, 2000)
Census' Ethnic Emphasis Outrageous by Tamar Jacoby (Newsday) http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_newsday-census_ethnic_emphasi.htm (March 30, 2000)
The Census Scam by Eric Garris (LewRockwell.com) http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/garris1.html (March 30, 2000)
Census Non-Filers Have Little to Fear From Law by Hans H. Chen (APB News) http://www.apbnews.com:80/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/03/30/census0330_01.html (March 30, 2000)
Keeping Government Out of the Mailbox by Wendy Kaminer (IntellectualCapital) http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue359/item8929.asp (March 30, 2000)
Census Too Nosy? Don't Answer Invasive Questions, GOP Suggests by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42006-2000Mar29.html (March 30, 2000)
Will the Feds Then Tell Me What my Race Is If I Answer the Census Question Wrong? by Mary Mostert (Original Sources) http://www.originalsources.com/OS3-00MQC/3-30-2000.1.html (March 30, 2000)
Call yourself what you will after filling out census form by Charlie James (The Seattle Times) http://www.seattletimes.com/news/editorial/html98/char29_20000329.html (March 29, 2000)
Talking Equal by Ward Connerly (Frontpage Magazine) http://www.frontpagemag.com/archives/racerelations/connerly03-29-00.htm (March 29, 2000)
Some white Americans shun the census over privacy, fear of government by Steve Friess (The Sun Sentinel) http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,30000000000106417,00.html (March 29, 2000)
Civics Lessons in the Census by Edward L. Hudgins (Cato - Today's Commentary) http://www.cato.org/dailys/03-28-00.html (March 28, 2000)
Paul Introduces Bill to Limit Census (Office of Representative Ron Paul) http://www.multiracial.com/government/pr20000328.html (March 28, 2000)
Judge puts brakes on Census Bureau by Julie Foster (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18035 (March 28, 2000)
U.S. Census Bureau works to quell privacy fears by Stuart Eskenazi (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/cens28m_20000328.html (March 28, 2000)
Already, setbacks for the census by Daniel B. Wood and Kris Axtman (Christian Science Monitor) http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/03/28/p1s2.htm (March 28, 2000)
Libertarians say: End growing anti-Census firestorm with the Census-on-a-Postcard (The Libertarian Party) http://www.multiracial.com/news/pr20000328.html (March 28, 2000)
From pep rallies to pet peeves, Census 2000 gets most hype, flap by Jack Norman (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/mar00/census27032600a.asp (March 27, 2000)
Census questionnaire draws countless citizen complaints (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) http://www.seattle-pi.com/local/cens27.shtml (March 27, 2000)
Census chief says he doesn't expect privacy lawsuit to stand in court by Rick Klein (Dallas Morning News/Associated Press) http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/54982_CENSUS26.html (March 26, 2000)
Ad blitz promotes head count by Robb Frederick (The Tribune-Review) http://www.tribunereview.com/news/rcen0326.html (March 26, 2000)
California redistricting affects Latino power by Dan Walters (Nando Times) http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,500184720-500245863-501234102-0,00.html (March 26, 2000)
Black and proud by Michael Finley (Salon) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/25/census/index.html (March 25, 2000)
Census campaign draws fire from opponents of governemnt intrusion (Associated Press) http://flash.oregonlive.com/cgi-bin/or_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/OREGON_NEWS/o1016_AM_WA--CensusSuspicion (March 25, 2000)
Dangers in census move to include race inquiry by Fintan O'Toole (The Irish Times) http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2000/0324/opt1.htm (March 24, 2000)
Census Bureau sued by Houston attorney by Rad Sallee (The Houston Chronicle) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/501602 (March 23, 2000)
Census Bureau answers critics by Julie Foster (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17838 (March 22, 2000)
Census welfare ring: 10 year head count is a spending spree by Bernadette Malone Connolly (The Union Leader) http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=7051 (March 22, 2000)
Schools Must Add New Ways To Count Races by Mary Ann Zehr (Education Week) http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=28census.h19 (March 22, 2000)
New options fuel debate about race by Steve Morelli (Press & Sun-Bulletin) http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Tunews3.html (March 21, 2000)
Weathering the Census by Christopher Westley (Ludwig von Mises Institute) http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=400&FS=Weathering+the+Census (March 20, 2000)
Libertarians: 'Just Say No' to Census 2000 Questions by Jim Burns (Conservative News Service) http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\CUL20000320b.html (March 20, 2000)
Count Me Out by Sheldon Richman (The Multiracial Activist) http://www.multiracial.com/readers/richman.html (March/April 2000)
Census 2000: Just Say No To Race by James K. Mattis (The Multiracial Activist) http://www.multiracial.com/readers/mattis.html (March/April 2000)
A Call For The End of The One Drop Rule by Patrice Farmer (The Multiracial Activist) http://www.multiracial.com/readers/farmer3.html (March/April 2000)
With a Census This Intrusive, Count Me Out by Lance Morrow (Time) http://www.time.com/time/daily/0,2960,41264-101000320,00.html (March 20, 2000)
Mixed-race census puzzle by Myung Oak Kim (The Philadelphia Daily News) http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/2000/Mar/20/local/CENS20.htm (March 20, 2000)
Census forms spark race debate by Daniel Gonzalez (The Arizona Republic) http://www.azcentral.com/news/0320census.shtml (March 20, 2000)
The Politics of Race and the Census by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/031900census-race-review.html (March 19, 2000)
U.S. Census Cultivates Fiction of Race by Courtland Milloy (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38133-2000Mar18.html (March 19, 2000)
Census forms better, but still vexing to people of "other" races by Joe Rodriguez (San Jose Mercury News) http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/rodriguez19.htm (March 19, 2000)
Census Answers are Required by Law by Robert Longley (About.com) http://usgovinfo.about.com/newsissues/usgovinfo/library/news/aa031800a.htm (March 18, 2000)
Ministers recruited for census sermons by Julie Foster (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17833 (March 18, 2000)
Libertarians say: Strike a blow for privacy: Refuse to answer nosy Census questions (The Libertarian Party) http://www.multiracial.com/news/pr20000317.html (March 17, 2000)
Short Take: senseless census by J.D. Tuccille (About.com) http://civilliberty.about.com/newsissues/civilliberty/library/briefs/bl031700.htm (March 17, 2000)
Census blamed in internment of Japanese Citizens by Steven A. Holmes (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) http://www.seattlep-i.com/national/cens17.shtml (March 17, 2000)
Lengthy survey asks 53 questions by Jennifer McGinnis (Tribune-Review) http://www.tribunereview.com/news/rcen0317.html (March 17, 2000)
U.S. incensed over census by Julie Sullivan (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17832 (March 17, 2000)
Milestone for Those of Mixed Race by Solomon Moore (Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000316/t000025152.html (March 16, 2000)
How Race Counts in the 2000 Census (Chicago Tribune) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/page/0,1122,SAV-0003150008,00.html (March 15, 2000)
America's Changing Face - Experts: Census 2000 Will Reveal Ethnic Shift by Geraldine Sealey (ABCNews) http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/censusrace000315.html (March 15, 2000)
Census angers residents (WTMJ) http://www.msnbc.com/local/WTMJ/24965.asp (March 14, 2000)
Stand up and be counted as census commences by Julie Sullivan (The Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/news/00/03/st031202.html (March 12, 2000)
Mixing It Up: Multiracial People Will Be Placed in Minority Groups by Genaro C. Armas (ABCNews/Associated Press) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/census000311.html (March 11, 2000)
Census Will Vary Race Counting by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54103-2000Mar10.html (March 11, 2000)
Multiracial Census Form Poses Dilemma/Organizations fear dilution of numbers by Tanya Schevitz (San Francicso Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/03/11/MN53492.DTL (March 11, 2000)
Census: Mixed Races Count As Minorities by Steven A. Holmes (The Spokesman-Review) http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=031100&ID=s753796&cat= (March 11, 2000)
Census Announces Multiracial Guidelines by Genaro C. Adams (ABCNews/Associated Press) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/census000311.html (March 11, 2000)
Bulletin 00-02 - Guidance on Aggregation and Allocation of Data on Race for Use in Civil Rights Monitoring and Enforcement (Office of Management and Budget) http://www.multiracial.com/government/ombbulletin-00-02.html (March 9, 2000)
Making Up American Identity by Che Hashim (The Indicator) http://www.amherst.edu/~indicate/00mar09/articles/cover.html (March 9, 2000)
Gays plan protest in writing on census forms (Associated Press) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2000/03/07/state1329EST0153.DTL (March 7, 2000)
Libertarians urge filling in just one box for census by Maria Titze (Deseret News) http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155008400,00.html? (March 7, 2000)
Tear up that census form by J.D. Tuccille (About.com) http://civilliberty.about.com/culture/civilliberty/library/weekly/aa030600a.htm (March 6, 2000)
On The Census: Color Us Mixed Up by William Raspberry (The Washington Post) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15328-2000Mar5.html (March 6, 2000)
Census lets the counted defy conventional labels by Rick Klein (The Dallas Morning News) http://dallasnews.com/metro/43852_CENSUSRACE05.html (March 5, 2000)
More multiracial people will be counted in census by Osker Spicer (The Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/news/00/03/st030513.html (March 5, 2000)
White American? Or Asian American? by R S Shankar (Rediff) http://www.rediff.com/us/2000/mar/04us3.htm (March 4, 2000)
A Racial Tug of War Over Census by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-03/03/057l-030300-idx.html (March 3, 2000)
Government begs: send Census forms back (Evansville Courier & Press) http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200003/03+apcents_news.html+20000303 (March 3, 2000)
Census should reflect land rich in blended citizens by Amitai Etzioni (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com:80/usatonline/20000302/1985028s.htm (March 2, 2000)
The multiple-race population of the United States: Issues and Estimante by Joshua R. Goldstein and Ann J. Morning (Office of Population Research, Princeton University) http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/100086897.pdf (February 29, 2000)
A rich sense of self: Many in new generation of biracial people reject narrow categorizations by Vanessa E. Jones (The Boston Globe) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/060/nation/A_rich_sense_of_self+.shtml (February 29, 2000)
Census 2000: Dare to be an 'other' by Mary Owen (The Collegian) http://www.collegian.utoledo.edu/archive/20000221/forum/guest1.html (February 21, 2000)
Census Changes on Race Categories by Paul Shepard (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000218/aponline142745_000.htm (February 18, 2000)
Multiracial People Must Wrestle With Census by Mary Owen (The State News) http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000218/university-22 (February 18, 2000)
Mixed thoughts on Census race question by Jill Nelson (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000218/1949527s.htm (February 18, 2000)
"The stakes are a bit higher for us" by Daryl Lindsey (Salon) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/16/naacp/index.html (February 16, 2000)
Do the multiracial count? by Gregory Rodriguez (Salon) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/15/census/index.html (February 15, 2000)
Census to allow for multiethnic identification by Kim Cobb (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer) http://www.seattlep-i.com/national/cens08.shtml (February 8, 2000)
Racial revisions to census forms comfort some, concern others by Kim Cobb (The Houston Chronicle) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/page1/448278 (February 4, 2000)
Employers ponder multiracial census question by Dianne Stafford (The Kansas City Star) http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/business.pat,business/3774334f.201,.html (February 1, 2000)
Census alters racial scorecard by Jeff Kunerth (Orlando Sentinel) http://www.orlandosentinel.com/automagic/news/2000-01-30/NWSRACE30013000.htm (January 30, 2000)
Go along to get along? by Geoff Metcalf (WorldNetDaily) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19578 (January 24, 2000)
Comment Letter to Census Bureau Regarding Multiple Response Sampling by Susan Graham and James Landrith (Project RACE) http://www.multiracial.com/letters/prewitt2.html (January 20, 2000)
Libertarians Say Americans Shouldn't Answer Census Questions by Jim Burns (Conservative News Service) http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200001\POL20000117e.html (January 17, 2000)
Multiracial Americans deserve a voice, too by Erika D. Peterman (Tallahassee Democrat) http://www.tdo.com/opinion/peterman/0115peterman.htm (January 15, 2000)
Libertarians say: Real Americans don't answer nosy Census questions (The Libertarian Party) http://www.multiracial.com/news/pr20000114.html (January 14, 2000)
Census working hard to include all groups (Deseret News) http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145019209,00.html (January 14, 2000)
Changing Face of the Racial Divide by Tatsha Robertson (The Boston Globe) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/002/metro/Changing_face_of_the_racial_divide+.shtml (January 2, 2000)
Our New Look: The Colors of Race by Ellis Cose (Newsweek) http://www.newsweek.com:80/nw-srv/printed/us/sr/a64671-1999dec19.htm (January 1, 2000)
A Racial Majority of None by Ben Stocking (San Jose Mercury News) http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/orchards28.htm (December 28, 1999)
Road Show Tries To Ease Census Fears by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/state/19991206/t000111208.html (December 6, 1999)
2000 Census eases rules on racial choice by Jeff Claassen (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:METRO12/1:METRO12120599.html (December 5, 1999)
Census 2000 by Gregory Rodriguez (The Economist) http://www.newamerica.net/articles/Rodriguez/gr-Economist-12-99.htm (December 1999)
Census' complex multiracial nightmare by Julie Chao (San Francisco Examiner) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/examiner/archive/1999/11/28/NEWS5065.dtl&type=printable (November 28, 1999)
2000 census offers opportunity and challenge by Jonathan Tilove (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/nov99/nns-census-r112099.asp (November 20, 1999)
Multiracial Students Struggle With Identities by Edward B. Colby (Harvard Crimson) http://www.thecrimson.com/features/article.asp?ref=4507 (November 12, 1999)
Counting on an Accurate 2000 Census by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson (Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/news/state/19991105/t000100570.html (November 5, 1999)
Mixed Doubles by Robert Suro (American Demographics) http://www.demographics.com/Publications/AD/99_ad/9911_ad/ad991101.htm (November 1999)
Census' multiple choice puzzle by Maureen Fan (San Jose Mercury News) http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/multirace31.htm (October 31, 1999)
2000 Census Will Help Utah Be More Racially Precise by Heather May (The Salt Lake Tribune) http://www.sltrib.com/10181999/utah/39163.htm (October 18, 1999)
More race categories, more confusion by Ellyn Ferguson (The Detroit News) http://www.detnews.com/1999/nation/9910/15/10150168.htm (October 15, 1999)
College applications - taking a controversial turn? by Sara Lyle (CPNet) http://www.cpnet.com/cpres/backtoschool/docs/multirace.asp (October 6, 1999)
Letter To U.S. Department of Justice Regarding Multiracial Census Tabulation by Ken Prewitt (U.S. Census Bureau) http://www.multiracial.com/letters/prewitt.html (September 13, 1999)
Blended races making true melting pot by Maria Puente and Martin Kasindorf (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/news/acovtue.htm (September 7, 1999)
Census 2000 Decision Memorandum No. 89 (U.S. Census Bureau) http://www.multiracial.com/government/censusmemo89.html (September 2, 1999)
Letter To U.S. Census Bureau Regarding Multiracial Census Tabulation by Bill Lann Lee (U.S. Department of Justice) http://www.multiracial.com/letters/lannlee.html (August 31, 1999)
Drawing A Wavering Color Line (Digital City - Detroit - Dialogues Online) http://home.digitalcity.com/detroit/detroit_dialog/main.dci?page=detroit-passing (August 28, 1999)
The Definition of Self by Kimberly Hohman (About.com) http://racerelations.about.com/library/weekly/aa082499.htm (August 24, 1999)
Census will for first time count those of mixed race by Tom Brune (Seattle Times) http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/cens_19990817.html (August 17, 1999)
One, two many races by Jeff Jacoby (Jewish World Review) http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jacoby081299.asp (August 12, 1999)
Readers Write: Counting Americans by race (Christian Science Monitor) http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/08/06/p10s3.htm (August 6, 1999)
Minorities fear census falls short by Tatsha Robertson (The Boston Globe) http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/211/metro/Minorities_fear_census_falls_shortP.shtml (July 30, 1999)
Census snags over racial categories by Jonathan Tilove (MSNBC/Newhouse News Service) http://www.msnbc.com/news/294797.asp (July 30, 1999)
Census reveals new ethnic category by Louinn Lota (Associated Press) http://www.boston.com/dailynews/210/nation/Census_reveals_new_ethnic_cate:.shtml (July 29, 1999)
Census to mark changing U.S. by Andre Mouchard (Detroit Free Press) http://www.freep.com/news/nw/dracial29.htm (July 29, 1999)
Census nods to new views of ethnicity by Laurent Belsie (Christian Science Monitor) http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/07/28/p1s2.htm (July 28, 1999)
'Race' is a crude category at best by Laurent Belsie (Christian Science Monitor) http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/07/28/p4s2.htm (July 28, 1999)
Census Bureau fights to use controversial sampling count, which could ease process by Lisa Zagaroli (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9707/15/07150103.htm (July 15, 1997)
Issue of the Week: Census 2000: The Politics Behind the Numbers (Policy.com) http://www.policy.com/issuewk/1999/0712_82/index.html (July 12, 1999)
In Search of a Census Pigeonhole by Agustin Gurza (Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/STATE/t000060366.html (July 6, 1999)
Nuclear Family Goes Boom by Elizabeth Trever Buchinger (Pensacola News Journal) http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/2000/stories/milm70199family.htm (July 1, 1999)
They just don't get it by Tracy Mackay-Martinez (INTERracial) http://www.twsonline.com/cgi-bin/newsdesk/newsdesk.cgi?a=28&t=template.html (June 27, 1999)
Mixed heritage stories, concerns shared at forum by T.T. Nhu (San Jose Mercury News) http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/local/docs/hapa25a.htm (April 25, 1999)
Rethinking racial identity by Andre Mouchard (Orange County Register) http://www.ocregister.com/living/multi025w1.shtml (April 25, 1999)
You can count me out by Diana Nelson Jones (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/19990408walk.asp (April 8, 1999)
Teen's crusade for multiracial box merits him $1000 scholarship by Sharon Rauch (Tallahassee Democrat) http://www.tdo.com/news/breaking/docs/29WINNER-CMP-NWS.htm (March 28, 1999)
Multiracial families struggle for identity, Classifying kids' heritage can be a challenge by Jason Swensen (Deseret News) http://www.desnews.com/cgi-bin/libstory_reg?dn99&9903250004 (March 25, 1999)
South Florida's racial, ethnic and cultural landscape transformed by David Cazeres (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel) http://www.naplesnews.com/today/florida/d128089a.htm (March 14, 1999)
U.S. Census OKs Web filing test by Colleen O'Hara (CNN) http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/23/census.idg/index.html (February 23, 1999)
Who's Counting? A Tale of Two Numbers by John Allen Paulos (ABC News) http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/WhosCounting/paulos990201.html (February 1, 1999)
BLOOD PRESSURE: a review of the Office of Management and Budget's long awaited draft proposal for tabulation of multiracial persons in the United States by Susan Graham & James A. Landrith, Jr. (Project RACE and The Multiracial Activist) http://www.multiracial.com/news/bloodpressure.html (February 1999)
In Blow to Democrats, Court Says Census Must Be By Actual Count by Linda Greenhouse (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/scotus/articles/012699census-counting.html (January 26, 1999)
Court: Census Can't Use Sampling by Laurie Asseo (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/stories/census25.htm (January 25, 1999)
Politics and population (The Chattanooga Times) http://www.chattimes.com/opinion/edit/1998/Dec/Dec021998edit1.html (December 2, 1998)
Census battle reaches Supreme Court (CNN) http://cnn.com/US/9811/30/scotus.census/ (November 30, 1998)
High court hears census arguments (The Associated Press) http://www.msnbc.com/news/219153.asp (November 30, 1998)
'I consider myself me': Kids come in many colors and they'd like a few words with us by Paula Bock (Seattle Times) http://www.seattletimes.com/news/lifestyles/html98/pmix_111598.html (November 15, 1998)
MULTIRACIAL SELF-CLASSIFICATION AND CENSUS 2000: EFFECT ON VOTING RIGHTS LITIGATION AND ALLOCATION OF FEDERAL FUNDS by Benjamin E. Griffith (IMLA’s 63rd Annual Conference) http://www.vralitigator.com/public-files/files/Multiracial%20Self-Classification.html (November 10, 1998)
Census Procedure a Sticking Point in Budget Talks by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/101498congress-census.html (October 14, 1998)
Court Rejects Clinton Census Plan (The New York Times/The Associated Press) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Census-Lawsuit.html (September 26, 1998)
The 2000 Census: Sampling or a Straight Count? by David Almasi (National Policy Analysis) http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA210.html (September 1998)
Census Dispute May Go To High Court (The New York Times/The Associated Press) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Census-Suit.html (August 26, 1998)
Lawsuit Challenges Census Sampling (The New York Times/The Associated Press) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Census-Lawsuit.html (August 6, 1998)
Census To Target American Indians (The New York Times/The Associated Press) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Census-Indians.html (August 6, 1998)
Clinton Census Nominee Favors Politically Controversial Method by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/new/washpol/census-appoint.html (June 24, 1998)
Don't You Dare List Us As Others: Multi-Racial Americans' Quest For Identity by Wendy Ruky (Columbia University School of Journalism) http://radio.jrn.columbia.edu/masters98/ruky/ruky-index.html (June 1998)
Census 2000: Sampling, Funding, and the "Multiracial" Category (United Auto Workers) http://www.uaw.org/publications/CAPconf/1998/cap1998_05b.html (May 1998)
Managing Multiple-Race Data by William O'Hare (American Demographics) http://www.marketingtools.com/publications/ad/98_ad/9804_ad/ad980430.htm (April 1998)
It's All in the Details by Christy Fisher (American Demographics) http://www.marketingtools.com/publications/ad/98_ad/9804_ad/ad980431.htm (April 1998)
"What are you?" Multiracial Families in America by Patricia Sullivan (Our Children) http://www.pta.org/pubs/edumulti.htm (February 1998)
Multiracial students can feel pride, confusion about identity by Spring Blachly and Andrew Fiore (Falcon's Cry) http://www.jordan.durham.k12.nc.us/fc/feb1998/multiracial.html (February 1998)
Census change stirs mixed-race debate by Oralandar Brand-Williams (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1998/nation/9801/05/01050120.htm (January 5, 1998)
New Census guidelines probably will add to all the confusion by Clarence Page (The Philadelphia Inquirer) http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/98/Jan/05/opinion/PAGE05.htm (January 5, 1998)
America doesn't need racial labels by Cal Thomas (The Holland Sentinel) http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/120997/opn_racial.html (December 9, 1997)
Census Is Likely To Undercount Latinos by Carlos Munoz, Jr. (StLouis Post-Dispatch/Progressive Media Project) http://web3.stlnet.com/archives/pdarc97.nsf/ce5cb66cf17fd8b686256363005212c4/1fef9d52d24ed5038625655d006d5f8e?OpenDocument (November 26, 1997)
Will rejection of labels create new American identity? by Stephen Magagnini (The Charlotte News & Observer) http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1997/11/23/qq00.html (November 23, 1997)
Why does it matter? by Joyce Clark Hicks (The Charlotte News & Observer) http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1997/11/23/qq00_side1.html (November 23, 1997)
Claiming her full heritage by Stephen Magagnini (The Charlotte News & Observer) http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1997/11/23/qq00_side2.html (November 23, 1997)
If race shouldn't count, then why count it? by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe) http://www.webcom.com/~intvoice/bos_glob.html (November 18, 1997)
Americans brainstorm to help create national race labels (Nando Times) http://www.footballserver.com/newsroom/ntn/nation/092897/nation21_16311_body.html (September 20, 1997)
Multiracial category could be on census (The State News) http://www.statenews.com/editionssummer97/061697/nw_census.html (June 17, 1997)
Multiethnic message is clear: Viva la difference by Karen Grigsby Bates (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/outlook/9711/25/11160032.htm (November 16, 1997)
Racial categories shouldn't be issue (The Jacksonville Daily News) http://www.jacksonvilledailynews.com/stories/111097/z6629.html (November 10, 1997)
Census revisions slight Latino and multiracial Americans by Carlos Munoz, Jr. (The Progressive) http://www.progressive.org/mpmunoznov.htm (November 6, 1997)
Racial politics and the next census (The Tampa Tribune) http://www.tampatrib.com/news/edit101e.htm (November 6, 1997)
Multi-ethnic Census option confounds the stereotypes (The Standard-Times) http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-97/11-04-97/b04op060.htm (November 4, 1997)
Are you multiracial? Uncle Sam wants to know by Paula Fuchsberg (The Philadelphia Inquirer) http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/97/Nov/02/national/RCEN02.htm (November 2, 1997)
All that apply: Rules on race broaden ways to describe ourselves (The Sacramento Bee) http://www.sacbee.com/news/beetoday/newsroom/edit/110297/edit02.html (November 2, 1997)
What's In A Name by Karen Dugger (Bucknell World) http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/pr/BucknellWorld/1997-11/end.html (November 1997)
Census Terms Debated by Britta Schilling (The Brown Daily Herald) http://www.netspace.org/herald/issues/103197/census.f.html (October 31, 1997)
Census panel wise to dump 'multiracial' by Miguel Perez (The Bergen Record) http://www.bergen.com/perez/perez21031971.htm (October 31, 1997)
U.S. Forms Will Offer Choice On Race Data by Penni Roberts (The Philadelphia Tribune) http://www.phila-tribune.com/103197-12-P1.htm (October 31, 1997)
Census 2000 Will Allow Multiple Race Categories - Check Any That Apply by Rebecca Leung (ABC News) http://www.abcnews.com/sections/us/2000census/ (October 31, 1997)
Washington Rejects Multiracial Category in Census by Robert Westervelt Jr. (The Daily Campus) http://www.uwire.com/uwire/97/10/news10319708.chtml (October 31, 1997)
No one answer necessary for census race question by Annie Nakao (The San Francisco Examiner) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/examiner/article.cgi?year=1997&month=10&day=30&article=NEWS15283.dtl (October 30, 1997)
Census to allow mixed-race reports by Faye Fiore (Virtually Northwest/Los Angeles Times) http://www.virtuallynorthwest.com/stories/1997/Oct/30/S299697.asp (October 30, 1997)
Census to have no multiracial category (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9710/30/10300156.htm (October 30, 1997)
Census Won't Have 'Multiracial' Box, But You Can Check More Than 1 Race by Associated Press (The Salt Lake Tribune) http://www.sltrib.com/97/oct/103097/nation_w/4540.htm (October 30, 1997)
Census adds new categories for people of mixed races (The Detroit Free Press) http://www.freep.com/news/nw/qcen30.htm (October 30, 1997)
Multiple Race Choices to Be Allowed on 2000 Census by Faye Fiore (The Los Angeles Times) http://www.latimes.com/sbin/my_iarecord.pl?NS-doc-path=/httpd/docs/HOME/NEWS/POLITICS/t000097722.html&NS-doc-offset=2&NS-collection=DailyNews&NS-search-set=/var/tmp/345a1/aaaa0055P5a1ef7& (October 30, 1997)
Census Expands Options for Multiracial Families by Barbara Vobejda (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-10/30/194l-103097-idx.html (October 30, 1997)
New Categories on Race and Ethnic Makeup Adopted by Administration by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times) http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+site+18160+0++%28multiracial%29%20OR%20%28%29%20OR%20%28%29 (October 30, 1997)
'Multiracial' not an option in next census (The Associated Press) http://167.8.29.8/plweb-cgi/idoc.pl?1312+unix+_free_user_+cgi.usatoday.com..80+USATODAY_ONLINE+USATODAY_ONLINE+NEWS+NEWS++multiracial (October 29, 1997)
Letters: Count the Heads (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9710/24/letters/letters.htm (October 24, 1997)
Decision Near on Racial Categories (Beloit Daily News/Associated Press) http://www.beloitdailynews.com/1097/race21.htm (October 21, 1997)
Archer challenger Vaughn passionate about race issue by Kenneth Cole (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9710/15/10150091.htm (October 15, 1997)
Multiracial Americans Deserve Better Than 'Other' by Gregory Rodriquez (The Christian Science Monitor) http://csmonitor.com/durable/1997/10/14/opin/opin.1.html (October 14, 1997)
Multiracial Americans seek acceptance as numbers grow by Stephen Magagnini (Sacramento Bee) http://www.sacbee.com/news/beetoday/newsroom/local/101297/local02.html (October 12, 1997)
Race Labeling Loses Meaning Multiracial Era (The Tallahassee Democrat) http://www.tdo.com/opinion/Wilson/0920wilson.htm (September 20, 1997)
School labels difficult for multiracial children (Baltimore Sun) http://www.sunspot.net/news/19970805/maryland/data/LOC_AAA_01B_870775281_154.shtml (August 5, 1997)
Black, White, or Other? by Ms. Jones (AFRONET) http://www.afronet.com/WB/073097-1.html (July 30, 1997)
PLAYING THE RACE CARD: Should we have a "multi-racial" category on the census? (NewsHour Online Forum) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/july97/census_7-28.html (July 29, 1997)
CENSUS AND RACE: Compromise is best on multiracial classification (The Detroit Free Press) http://www.freep.com/voices/editorial/0724census.htm (July 24, 1997)
American Apartheid by David Horowitz (Salon Magazine) http://www.salonmagazine.com/july97/columnists/horowitz2970718.html (July 18, 1997)
Census should adopt multiracial category (Amarillo Globe-News) http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/071697/census.html (July 16, 1997)
Black or white? Egyptian immigrant fights for black classification by Joan MacFarlane (CNN) http://www.cnn.com/US/9707/16/racial.suit/index.html (July 16, 1997)
Multiracial Census Category http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/july-dec97/census_7-16.html (July 16, 1997)
Defining Americans (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9707/13/2edit/2edit.htm (July 13, 1997)
It's time to break out of our old racial boxes (The Seattle Times) http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/browse/html97/raceed_071197.html (July 11, 1997)
Multiple Legacies Just Don't Fit Into Narrow Categories (Universal Press Syndicate) http://www.uexpress.com/ups/opinion/column/mg/archive/mg970709.html (July 9, 1997)
More than 1 answer for race on census form is proposed (The Baltimore Sun) http://www.sunspot.net/sunspot/news/19970709/national_world/data/TEL_03A_868442450_114.shtml (July 9, 1997)
Census would let people 'say who they are' by Randolph E. Schmid (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9707/09/07090140.htm (July 9, 1997)
Panel rejects multiracial choice for Census (Associated Press) http://www.jrnl.com/news/97/Jul/jrn155090797.html (July 9, 1997)
All Things Considered: Multiracial Findings by Sunni Khalid (National Public Radio) http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps05fm.cfm?SegID=38850 (July 8, 1997)
Press Release: Multiracial Group Views Change To Census As a Victory (Hapa Issues Forum ) http://www.multiracial.com/news/pr970708.html (July 8, 1997)
U.S. Considers Adding Statistics On 'Multiracial' (Education Week) http://www.edweek.org/htbin/fastweb?getdoc+view4+ew1997+1192+0+wAAA+%26%28multiracial%29%26AND%26%28multiracial%29%3AKEYWORDS%26OR%26%28multiracial%29 (June 25, 1997)
Egyptian fighting to alter racial designation (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9706/16/06160093.htm (June 16, 1997)
Categoric Denials (Creative Loafing Network: Topside) http://www.cln.com/topside/newsstand/archives/061497/index.htm (June 14, 1997)
"Bureaucrats Hobble Quest of Egyptian For Job by Classifying him "Caucasian" (Michael Reagan MONTHLY MONITOR) http://www.reagan.com/mfcon/mike/HotTopics/document-6.10.1997.7.html (June 10, 1997)
Editorial - Multiracial Checkoff Is a Vote for Accuracy (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/chronicle/article.cgi?file=ED61350.DTL&directory=/chronicle/archive/1997/06/08 (June 8, 1997)
Rainbow Saboteurs (Eloquent Fury) http://www.geocities.com/ambwww/RACIAL-LABELS-1.htm (June 2, 1997)
All Things Considered: Multiracials by Sunni Khalid (National Public Radio) http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps05fm.cfm?SegID=39441 (May 30, 1997)
Will Tiger Law Take Bite From Minority Clout? (The Bronx Beat) http://moon.jrn.columbia.edu/BronxBeat/indices/051997/tiger.html (May 19, 1997)
Report discounts 'multiracial' listing fears by Larry Bivins (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9705/16/05160089.htm (May 16, 1997)
Multiracial category on census may have little effect on counts (Houston Chronicle) http://w ww.chron.com/content/chronicle/nation/97/05/16/multiracial.2-0.html (May 16, 1997)
Shades of difference (Orlando Sentinel) http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/0507mix.htm (May 7, 1997)
I'm Just Who I Am (TIME Magazine) http://pathfinder.com/@@NnuSZAcACbOSH0Di/time/magazine/1997/dom/970505/nation.im_just_who_i.html (May 5, 1997)
Three Profiles (TIME Magazine) http://pathfinder.com/@@NnuSZAcACbOSH0Di/time/magazine/1997/dom/970505/nation.profiles.html (May 5, 1997)
The Multiracial Option (Harvard Magazine) http://www.harvard-magazine.com/mj97/right.multi.html (May/June 1997)
Boxing People In: Census 2000 offers an uncertain hope for biracial recognition. (Perspective) http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/issues/1997/may/boxing.html (May 1997)
cablinasian like me (Salon Magazine) http://www.salonmagazine.com/april97/tiger970430.html (April 30, 1997)
Tiger's Comments Stir Up Racial-Designation Debate (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9704/25/04250103.htm (April 25, 1997)
Editorial Notebook: What's in a name for blacks? Ask Tiger Woods (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9704/25/notebook/notebook.htm (April 25, 1997)
Struggling in America's melting pot (The Dallas Morning News) http://www.dallasnews.com/national-nf/nat126.htm (April 20, 1997)
Talk of the Nation: Racial Categories (National Public Radio) http://www.npr.org/ramarchives/ne7a0801-5.ram (April 8, 1997)
Groups with special interests insist on cluttering things up in simpler Census by Pete Waldmeir (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9704/07/04070092.htm (April 7, 1997)
'Mixed-race' may be new category in 2000 census (The Minnesota Daily/Associated Press) http://www.mndaily.com/daily/1997/04/03/world_nation/wn043c.ap/ (April 3, 1997)
Mixed-race Americans want government's recognition (The Associated Press) http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/040397/mixed.htm (April 3, 1997)
Count on changes in Census 2000 (CNN Interactive) http://cnn.com/US/9703/31/census/ (March 31, 1997)
An Emerging Question: Black or Multiracial? (AfroNet) http://www.afronet.com/WB/031597-1.html/ (March 15, 1997)
Lawmaker: Make English official state language by Kenneth Cole (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9701/24/01240141.htm (January 24, 1997)
Hispanics (Slate) http://www.slate.com/Gist/97-01-04/Gist.asp (January 4, 1997)
Multiracial Conundrum (Utne Reader) http://www.utne.com/bCulture.tmpl?command=search&db=dArticle.db&eqheadlinedata=Mixed%20up
More Multiracials, Fewer Blacks? (Business Week) http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/december/new1205b.htm (December 5, 1996)
What are You? Multiracial in a Black-And-White World (New Jersey Reporter) http://www.njreporter.org/njreporter/pub/1996v26n4thompson.html (November/December 1996)
Blood Simple: The politics of miscegenation. (Slate Magazine) http://www.slate.com/Features/BloodSimple/BloodSimple.asp (August 20, 1996)
All Mixed Up (AsianWeek) http://www.asianweek.com/071296/emil.html (July 12, 1996)
Many American Dilemmas: The statistical politics of counting by race and ethnicity (The Brookings Review) http://www.brookings.org/pub/review/skersu96.htm (Summer 1996 Vol. 14 No. 3)
How To Record Race by Suzann Evinger (American Demographics) http://www.marketingtools.com/publications/ad/96_ad/9605_ad/9605af02.htm (May 1996)
Don't you dare list them as 'other': Multiracial Americans seek Full Recognition (U.S. News & World Report) http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/birace.htm (April 8, 1996)
Biracial people symbolize future of race (The Detroit News) http://detnews.com/menu/stories/34007.htm (January 31, 1996)
A New Census? (Issues In HR) http://www.shrm.org/docs/census.htm (November/December 1995)
One Drop of Blood by Lawrence Wright (The New Yorker) http://www.afn.org/~dks/race/wright.html (July 24, 1994)
Policy Positions
AAA Response To OMB Directive 15 (American Anthropological Association) http://www.ameranthassn.org/gvt/ombprinf.htm
Key Decisions Await Congress, Census Bureau, A Preparations Continue for 2000 Count (American Chamber of Commerce Executives) http://www.acce.org/ac.overview.html
ACRI Criticizes Federal Government's Rejection of a Multiracial Census Box (American Civil Rights Institute) http://www.acri.org/news/070997.html
ATR Slams Sampling (Americans For Tax Reform) http://www.atr.org/asls.htm
JACL Policy Position on Census Multiracial Category (Japanese American Citizens League) http://jacl.org/multi.htm
Libertarian Party urges nationwide boycott of government's "official" racial categories (The Libertarian Party) http://www.multiracial.com/news/pr970710.html (July 10, 1997)
Abolish the government's "official" racial classifications, Libertarians say (The Libertarian Party) http://www.multiracial.com/news/pr970128.html (January 28, 1997)
NAACP's Views on New Multiracial Category (NAACP) http://www.multiracial.com/news/naacp1.html (January 6, 1997)
Multiracial Box (Policy.com) http://www.policy.com/issues/issue99.html
The Census (Policy.com) http://www.policy.com/issues/issue366.html
CensusScope: Multiracial Profile
CensusScope: Segregation
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Census 2000: Special Topics on the Web
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: census microdata for social and economic research
INTERRACIAL VOICE - Point-CounterPoint on Census Category...
INTERRACIAL VOICE - Point-CounterPoint on Strategies for Distributing the Census 2000 Protest (Check American Indian)
U.S. Census Bureau
LCEF: Census 2000 - Everyone Counts
Census 2000 Initiative
Yahoo!: Full Coverage - Census
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