...This introductory chapter presents Barack Obama's self-identification on his U.S. census form as a Black African American or Negro. His move settles one of the most prevalent issues during his 2008 presidential campaign—his racial identity—and resounded the monoracial ways of thinking...

...This chapter deploys a methodological innovation to address the often-feared possibility that the Mexican American second generation will assimilate “downward” and develop into an underclass. To solve the problem of measuring the characteristics of the second generation in decennial census data...

...The Census Bureau proposes to discontinue counting Latinos as an ethnicity and instead to move “Latino”/“Hispanic” to the list of races on its decennial population survey questionnaire. I argue that the proposal has the potential to significantly hinder the demographic count of Afro-Latinos...

..., transracial adoption, the connections between the deaths of Black people from police violence and the deaths of economically disadvantaged whites due to despair, the conflation of race and nationality in census policies, white perceptions of wokeness and racial justice, and resistance to applying...

...This chapter investigates several complex and interrelated systems that conflate race and nationality in data collection, popular discourse, policies, and social justice efforts. Using examples drawn from autoethnographic accounts, research studies, census documents, higher education, and legal...

... and Project RACE (Reclassify All Children Equally). In 1993, the presidents of these two organizations testified before Congress, advocating the implementation of a Multiracial identifier on the U.S. census. Also, academic writing challenged racial categorization as obsolete. This reached greater visibility...

...This chapter turns to a more specific description of the “symbolic assailant” by exploring John Lamberth's 1993 census of violators on the New Jersey Turnpike. The findings are considered seminal in light of its sizable impact on public perceptions of “driving while Black/Brown” and as one...

...This chapter draws from census and American Community Survey data (ACS) to evaluate the fitness of Los Angeles as a case study in segmented assimilation theory. It reveals that many elements of segmented theory hold up, such as increases in immigration and the nonwhite population, as well as high...

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.... Census—and maps out the particular demographics to be interviewed and studied for the remainder of this book. Murthy Sheela Rose Ernestine United Nations immigration policy refugee s Segura Denise Zavella Patricia Ellis Island Geertz Clifford Parreñas Rhacel Salazar Birds of Passage Demos...