The Institute for the Study of "Race" & Social Justice, housed at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico, invite you to our symposium:

Counting "Race": Racial and Ethnic Measurements in the 2020 Census

DATE & TIME: Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, 1-5pm
PLACE: UNM SUB Ballroom A

The symposium will include moderated roundtable discussions that will be free and open to the general public. A reception will follow. Some of the topics that will be covered are:

· Best practices for counting race and ethnicity, with a focus on lessons from previous
censuses;

· The use of multiple measures for race and ethnicity (e.g., self-identity and socially
defined race-what other people think you are; self and parental place of birth; ancestry, etc.);

· differences between the race and ethnicity questions collected by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), the U.S. Census and the American Community Survey;

· The undercount of Native Americans, Latino/as, and undocumented communities
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University;

Leobardo Estrada, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles; Clara
Rodriguez, Professor of Sociology, Fordham University; Kenneth Prewitt, CarnegieProfessor ofPublic Affairs, Columbia University & former director of the U.S. Census Bureau

INVITED SPEAKERS (PENDING CONFIRMATION): Karen Humes, Assistant Division Chief for Special Population Statistics Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau U.S.; Suzann Evinger, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Co-sponsors: UNM Geospatial Population Studies, Native American Studies, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, Office of Equity & Inclusion, Project New Mexico for Graduate
Students of Color, Division of Student Services

For more information contact Professor Nancy López, nlopez@unm.edu, Tel: 505 277-3101, http://healthpolicy.unm.edu/node/486

For more information regarding the RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM
visit our website: http://healthpolicy.unm.edu/