The Census Bureau is also testing more gender-neutral language throughout the survey. A new "Middle Eastern or North African" racial category will also be implemented. These changes could be ...

If you've ever filled out a demographic form (like the US Census), you've probably been asked about your race and ethnicity. You might even wonder exactly what those terms mean and how they differ.

Political analyst Michael Barone recently recalled how a Boston woman some years ago made her voting decisions: “I just go down the ballot and vote for all the good Irish names.” For decades, party ...

Pt. 1. Hispanic/Latino identity, ethnicity, and race. Is Latina/o identity a racial identity? / Linda Martin Alcoff ; The making of new peoples: Hispanizing race / Eduardo Mendieta ; Negotiating ...

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...

This article discusses how racial categories, rooted in social history, are used in records and society. It argues race isn’t scientifically valid and that removing racial data could reduce prejudice, ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to assess the use of the social constructs of race and ethnicity in biomedical research. The study will ...

What Asian American studies and narrative theory can do for each other / Sue J. Kim -- Narrative form, ideal readerships, and Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's The Autobiography of a brown buffalo / Christopher ...

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