Problem: Read these:
1. Snipp: Defining Race and Ethnicity (in Rethinking the Color Line, chapter 4)
2. Code Switch: Why Some Want to Narrow Who Counts as Black
3. Henderson: The Next Census Will Gather More Racial, Ethnic Information (if you'd like more info on this topic, you can go to latinoisnotarace.info.)
4. Biewen: Made in America (Seeing White podcast series, Part 3) (transcript)
5. Tatum: Part 1: A Definition of Terms (in Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?)
6. Wang and Talbot: This Is How the White Population Is Actually Changing Based on New Census Data
If you would like information on debates over capitalizing the B in Black and the W in White:
1. Coleman: Why We're Capitalizing Black
2. Painter: Why 'White' Should Be Capitalized, Too (here is another link through the library website)
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