Race and Ethnicity Definitions, Demographics and Trends

Social Construction of Race

• How to fight racism using science (The Guardian)
  

• DNA tests can't tell you your race (Popular Science)
• How Not To Talk About Race And Genetics (BuzzFeed)
• What Happens When Geneticists Talk Sloppily About Race (The Atlantic)
• There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label (National Geographic)
• These Twins, One Black and One White, Will Make You Rethink Race (National Geographic)
• Study Illuminates Genetic Origins of Skin Color Diversity (How Stuff Works)
• To bring a divided country together, start with a little spit (Washington Post)

Demographics

• Asian-American and Pacific Islander Demographics (U.S. Census)
• America is changing. Bigoted slurs, immigration bans and racist rallies can't change that (CNN)
• Census: Every ethnic, racial group grew, but whites slowest (Yahoo News)
• Hispanic Demographic Statistics (U.S. Census)
• US immigration population hits record 60 million, 1-of-5 in nation (Washington Examiner)

U.S. Census

• Measuring Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Census (Society Pages)

• How the U.S. census blotted out non-white Americans (The Week)
• How Racial Data Gets 'Cleaned' in the U.S. Census (The Atlantic)
• White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people (USA Today)

Bias & Prejudice

• How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies (Sociological Science)

• How to Think about "Implicit Bias" (Scientific American)

Institutional Racism

• The Racism Right Before Our Eyes (The New York Times)
• A ‘Rare Case Where Racial Biases’ Protected African-Americans. (The New York Times)
• This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry (The New York Times)

• Here’s why you didn’t get that job: your name (World Economic Forum)

• Race, Colorism, and the Criminal Justice System (Society Pages)

• Beyond College Campuses and Public Scandals, a Racist Tradition Lingers (The New York Times)

• Racism’s Cost to Black Homeowners Is About $48,000 (The New Yorker Magazine)

• The Encoded Racist Messages of Skin Care Marketing (Racked)

• Debunking The Persistent Myths About The Racial Wealth Gap (Slate)
• How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision (The Hechinger Report)
• Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools (The Hechinger Report)
• Racism in America: It’s so pervasive that white people pay less for car insurance (Salon)
• You Have to Be Perfect or Lucky (or Perfect and Lucky) to Buy a House If You're Black (The Root)
• The Impacts of Segregation on 'Discrimination in America' (CityLab)

Implicit Racism

• When Civility Is Used As A Cudgel Against People Of Color (NPR)

• Subtle Racism (The Huffington Post)

Individual Racism

• Traveling while black: Why some Americans are afraid to explore their own country (East Bay Times)
• Can Biology Class Reduce Racism (The New York Times)
• Yelp Reviewers’ Authenticity Fetish Is White Supremacy in Action (Eater)

Racism Implications

• New study takes aim at debunking old myths about America’s racial wealth gap (Think Progress)
• Knowing Someone Who Faced Discrimination May Affect Blood Pressure (NPR)

White Privilege

• Unpacking White Privilege (My Domaine) Why do so many white people deny the existence of white privilege? (The Weekly Challenger)
• The white man's burden of privilege still affects us (Star Phoenix)
• Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard (African American Intellectual History Society)
• The racial dynamics between American women are flipped in a disorienting photo series (Quartz)
• If white America is in “crisis,” what have black Americans been living through? (The Washington Post)