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URBAN PERSPECTIVE; New Census Multiracial Options Unlikely to Benefit Blacks
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Los Angeles Sentinel
09-08-2004
Census 2000 was the first to allow Americans to choose one or more races.
Previously, they only listed one race when identifying themselves and their
children. Not surprisingly, "diversity +" California leads the
nation-five-percent of the state's population self-identified as being of
more than one race (1.7 million people).
Recent research by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) finds
that "Calif...
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House debates census forms: Racial categories focus of discussion.(Nation)
The Washington Times
; The proposal to allow Americans to check more than one racial category on their census forms has raised doubts on Capitol Hill about how the additional racial data will be tabulated. Rep. Steve Horn, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight subcommittee on government management,
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COUNTING DIVERSITY
The Boston Globe
; YESTERDAY the Census Bureau gave the country a detailed look at its race and ethnicity. Now the country has to figure out how to use these complex numbers. Census 2000 gave people a new choice: Check all racial categories that apply. This created 63 possible racial categories. Most people stuck to
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Casualties on the civil rights battlefield.(Commentary)
The Washington Times
; The U.S. Constitution forbids group rights. Disparate legal privileges are strictly unconstitutional. Moreover, they are strictly illegal under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Yet, unconstitutional and illegal group rights have been in existence in our country since the 1970s. Moreover, the Clinton
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TIGER WOODS USED AS AMMO IN TESTIMONY GOLFER'S NAME USED IN SQUABBLE OVER CENSUS.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Joanne Kenen Reuter WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Newt Gingrich used the name of golf champion Tiger Woods as he weighed in Friday on the controversy about how to define racial categories in the next census. He called for a single ``multiracial'' grouping. Gingrich's support for a
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CENSUS BOOTS `MULTIRACIAL' CATEGORY THOSE OF MIXED RACE WILL BE ASKED TO CHECK AS MANY BOXES AS APPLY.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Randolph E. Schmid Associated Press WASHINGTON -- There will be no ``multiracial'' category in the next census, the government decided Wednesday. But Americans of mixed ancestry will be able to list themselves in as many racial categories as apply. The decision was announced by Franklin
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