Writing Race: A Checklist For Writers

We've been talking a lot about this on the Fire Escape, but I thought it might be helpful to sum up ten questions we writers can ask ourselves once we've completed a story (these were presented during my workshop at the NESCBWI conference last weekend):
How and why did or didn't I define race? Did I use labels like "Black" or "white"? If so, which ones and why?

Did my setting, plot, and characters determine the cultural casting?

Am I aware and in charge of of any non-verbals that are race-specific