{"id":1159,"date":"2009-09-28T00:42:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T00:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2022-02-24T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:44:30","slug":"mark-one-or-more-civil-rights-in-multiracial-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/325778\/mark_one_or_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Michigan Press<\/a><br \/>\n2006<br \/>\n208 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9; 11 Tables &amp; 8 Figures.<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-472-03280-8<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdx.edu\/hatfieldschool\/kim-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim M. Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Political Science; Academic Director of the Center for Women, Politics &amp; Policy at the Hatfield School of Government<br \/>\n<em>Portland State University, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/325778\/mark_one_or_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/images\/covers\/full\/9780472114429.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.umich.edu\/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark One or More<\/a><\/em> tells the little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The movement to add a multiracial category to the 2000 U.S. Census provoked unprecedented debates about race. The effort made for strange bedfellows.\u00a0 Republicans like House Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newt_Gingrich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> and affirmative action opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ward_Connerly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ward Connerly<\/a> took up the multiracial cause. Civil rights leaders opposed the movement on the premise that it had the potential to dilute the census count of traditional minority groups. The activists themselves\u2014a loose confederation of organizations, many led by the white mothers of interracial children\u2014wanted recognition. What they got was the transformation of racial politics in America.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mark One or More<\/em> is the compelling account of how this small movement sparked a big change, and a moving call to reassess the meaning of racial identity in American life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America University of Michigan Press 2006 208 pages 6 x 9; 11 Tables &amp; 8 Figures. Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-03280-8 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science; Academic Director of the Center for Women, Politics &amp; Policy at the Hatfield School of Government Portland State University, Portland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33,8,17,26,20],"tags":[71,47,295],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-census","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-kim-m-williams","tag-kim-williams","tag-university-of-michigan-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63236,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/63236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}