By Grace Woodruff, Valerie Tseng, Hannah Anderson On September 11, 2021, 22-year-old travel vlogger Gabby Petito was reported missing by her family following a months-long cross-country road trip, which ended with Petito’s partner Brian Laundrie returning home to Florida without her. Petito’s case was highly publicized, with nightly news shows and Twitter threads alike reporting […]
by the Census Critics The categories and language used on the census have changed with every iteration—to reflect the new administration’s social usage of racial and ethnic terms. Since race is a social construct, the terms used regarding race and ethnicity are often confusing, biased, and defined differently by different people. The Census Bureau hopes […]
by Sabrina Cadiz, Elizabeth Jimenez Fique, and Sydney Tischler Casta paintings, like the one depicted above, date back to the mid 1700s in Mexico, where they were used as visual “guides” to the names and attributes of offspring of interracial couples. Usually in a series of 16 paintings, each image featured a mother, a father […]
