For multiracial adults, the intersection of race and social connections is complicated. Many mixed-race adults straddle two (or more) worlds, and their relationships reflect that. Whether it is in the ...

One might think that, as a decorated professor at an Ivy League university, I would have escaped the various indignities that being Black in traditionally white ... his family background a secret ...

White denied her skin color was ever a factor on the track. “In fact, it’s an advantage in that I have a lot of support from black people who see me race,” she said in a 1974 interview in ...

During the earliest days of the Kentucky Derby more than a dozen of the first winning horses were ridden by black ... Race Track, near Chicago, Ill., the result of intimidatory tactics by white ...

According to Blight’s 2001 book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, a commemoration organized by freed slaves and some white ... black schoolchildren paraded around the race ...

At the time I was not very politicized, and I assumed that my race had merely been a background ... white people who, quite innocently, thought they were doing the right thing by bringing a Black ...

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"And [she] was telling us about these different fee structures that they had based on the ethnic background ... Race Card Project about the intersection of race and adoption. White Mom, Black ...

Without reliable data, it’s difficult to track ... race box. For example, under the “White” race box, the survey lists sample ancestries such as German, Irish, English and Italian. The ...

The proposed combined question measuring a respondent’s race or ethnicity includes seven broad categories: White, Hispanic or Latino, Black or African ... studies that track American demographics.