Word: censuses
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...explosion of interracial, interethnic and interreligious marriages will swell the ranks of children whose mere existence makes a mockery of age-old racial categories and attitudes. Since 1970, the number of multiracial children has quadrupled to more than 2 million, according to the Bureau of the Census. The color line once drawn between blacks and whites--or more precisely between whites and nonwhites--is breaking into a polygon of dueling ethnicities, each fighting for its place...
...them? Are they a new and distinct category of "real" Americans, due the same respectful recognition--and governmental protections--as more familiar groups? Or should they be lumped into the demeaning catchall category of "minorities" or "other"? How we eventually answer these questions will affect everything from the first Census forms of the 21st century, which will be issued a mere three years from now, to university admissions policies to the way civil rights laws are enforced. Even more important, it may ultimately transform the way Americans identify themselves and the tribe or tribes they belong to. In one grandiose...
...blacks saw Woods' assertion of a multiracial identity as a sellout that could touch off an epidemic of "passing." Arthur Fletcher, a black member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, testified at a 1993 congressional hearing devoted to whether a new, "multiracial" category should be added to U.S. Census forms that "I can see a whole host of light-skinned black Americans running for the door the minute they have another choice. All of a sudden they have a way of saying, 'In this discriminatory culture of ours, I am something other than black...
...seems to be a step in the right direction." While Clinton?s initiative takes the heat off the unions, the jobs are nothing to hang your hat on: some 4,200 will be temporary positions helping the Commerce Department prepare for the 2000 census. Many others will be come through a government trainee program that hires entry-level workers into low-skill positions for $13,000 a year. While nothing to feed a family on, TIME's Jeff McAllister notes that their value lies in the opportunity to build an employment history. "Quite clearly it's not the same...
...election commission is responsible for conducting all public elections, voter registration and the annual city census. The commission also is responsible for administering municipal campaign and political finance reporting for the city...