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March 2010
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Joint Center) has long been a leading authority on trends related to the opinions and voting preferences of the nation’s black electorate. Two years ago, when the Joint Center launched its Commission to Engage African Americans on Climate Change, we undertook a major poll of African Americans’ opinions on the issue of climate change, in...
July 2008
Testimony of Roderick Harrison, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies on July 10, 2008, before the Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, U.S. House of Representatives. Available in PDF Format Only.To download this publication, click on the file icon below.Date Published...
March 2010
FACT SHEETS ON THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS Summary: Both pregnancy and childbirth rates declined dramatically for African American females during the 1990s. Despite these declines, they remain more likely than their white or Latina counterparts to report having been pregnant. However, black female teens were less likely to report childbirth than Latina teens in 2000...
December 2009
The upcoming decennial census will have an enormous impact on political representation and allocation of government funding.
News
July 2011
African-Americans once were clustered so heavily in urban areas that the terms “Black” and “inner city” came to be used almost synonymously. According to the 2010 U.S. Census results, that time is history.
While Blacks have by no means vanished from cities, unprecedented numbers have headed for the suburbs or left the big cities of the North and headed south. As...
June 2011
A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago's South Side.
Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and culture have been steadily draining of black children.
Last year's census found that the...
June 2011
Where are hundreds of thousands of African-American children that used to live in some of the nation’s largest cities?
The Associated Press reports that Census data shows that the number, and percentage, of Black children living in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans, as well as many other major urban areas, have been cascading downward for years....
June 2011
African-Americans have migrated in significant numbers from the urban core to the suburbs and from large metropolitan parts of the North to the South in the past ten years. As states redraw political districts, the impact of their exodus is varied. Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania will each lose congressional seats. Lawmakers in some Republican-controlled states have created redistricting maps...
March 2011
Roderick J. Harrison, demographer and former Chief of Racial Statistics at the U.S. Census Bureau, discussed what the census results, which were released on Thursday, reveal about DC.
Read more at The Washington Post.
March 2011
As U.S. Census figures roll out and states begin the politically charged process of redrawing state legislative maps, the politics of race is rising up as minority groups demand that their lawmakers look more like the communities they represent.
At issue is just how they do that and the two very different political approaches to promising minorities better representation in state Legislatures...
Archived Research
April 1, 2006
This edition of the Women of Color Health Data Book, prepared by the Joint Center for the National Institutes of Health, provides the most recent available information on different populations of women in the United States and represents a much desired update on the health of women of color. Originally published in 1997, and updated in 2002, this third edition of the Women of Color Health Data...
June 1, 1999
Significant groups of Americans remain unaware of the approaching 2000 Census, and among those who are aware, nearly half are not sure about the merits of statistical sampling according to the Joint Center's 1999 Opinion Poll. Those most likely to report being unaware of the census and the least likely to report seeing ads or being contacted about the census were low-income and less well educated...
