{"id":12237,"date":"2011-02-22T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2014-09-08T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:59:41","slug":"%e2%80%9ctwo-or-more-races%e2%80%9d-or-just-another-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12237","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTwo or More Races\u201d or Just Another Category?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/open.salon.com\/blog\/ulli_k_ryder\/2011\/02\/21\/two_or_more_races_or_just_another_category\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTwo or More Races\u201d or Just Another Category?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/open.salon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Salon<\/a><br \/>\n2011-02-20<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulliryder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education\u2019s \u201ctwo or more races\u201d category may appeal to some people but this is a slippery slope towards ignoring race altogether. Race still matters. Combating racism still matters. Acknowledging multiracial identities or agreeing to be placed in a \u201ctwo or more races\u201d category does not remove our responsibility to fight against the ways race\u2014and racism\u2014have impacted our lives in many, and sometimes violent, ways.<\/p>\n<p>The recent debate about the Department of Education&#8217;s &#8220;two or more races&#8221; category demonstrates both the importance of race today and the absurdity of racial categories. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2011\/02\/13\/the-two-or-more-races-dilemma\/racism-and-the-multiracial-check-box\" target=\"_blank\">As Rainier Spencer rightly reminds us<\/a>, racism is alive and well in the 21st century. The only way we have found to combat institutional racism is through the accurate reporting of racial data and our ability to make connections between race, class, gender and other factors such as employment and housing. Without this information we will not be able to measure discrimination or make policies that help create equality for all Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/open.salon.com\/blog\/ulli_k_ryder\/2011\/02\/21\/two_or_more_races_or_just_another_category\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwo or More Races\u201d or Just Another Category? Open Salon 2011-02-20 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. The Department of Education\u2019s \u201ctwo or more races\u201d category may appeal to some people but this is a slippery slope towards ignoring race altogether. Race still matters. Combating racism still matters. Acknowledging multiracial identities or agreeing to be placed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,26,20],"tags":[3437,45,3681,6543,3682],"class_list":["post-12237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-open-salon","tag-rainier-spencer","tag-ulli-k-ryder","tag-ulli-kira-ryder","tag-ulli-ryder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237","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=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}