Rubén Moreno, New America Media. November 19, 2010.
Though immigrants often send money to family in other countries, that trend is a two-way street: US residents also boost the economy with financial help sent from family abroad.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation. April 19, 2010.
Those who yearn for a postracial America hoped Obama had transcended blackness, but the real threat he poses to the American racial order is that he disrupts whiteness.
Should the US stop tracking its inhabitants' race, as the colorblind movement would have? Or should we endeavor to track race more comprehensively and nimbly?
Ten years ago, for the first time, respondents had options to self-identify as more than one race, nearly 7 million people (roughly 2.4 percent of respondents) did so.
Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, New America Media. March 4, 2010.
In 1848, the former citizens of Mexico were designated “white” because of U.S. slavery and legal segregation. This artifact of history complicates the U.S. Census to this day.
Undocumented immigrants and their families are an integral part of the social and economic fabric of our country. As such, they should be fully counted in our national census.
Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. September 29, 2009.
Oddly, supporters of the boycott find themselves on the same side as immigration hard-liners, who also want the undocumented excluded from the 2010 Census.
Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. September 28, 2009.
Bachmann has waged a high-profile campaign against the Census, claiming that the data collected had been used to round up and intern Japanese-Americans in the 1940s.
