{"id":12243,"date":"2011-02-23T02:09:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T02:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2013-05-27T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T20:38:00","slug":"columns-racial-lines-no-longer-just-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12243","title":{"rendered":"Columns: Racial lines no longer just black and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndaily.com\/2011\/02\/21\/racial-lines-no-longer-just-black-and-white\" target=\"_blank\">Columns: Racial lines no longer just black and white<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Minnesota Daily<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul<br \/>\n2011-02-21<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lolla Mohammed Nur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Clear-cut racial categories restrict how multiracial Americans identify themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Based on her appearance, you wouldn\u2019t easily be able to guess University of Minnesota sophomore Mary Taylor\u2018s racial or ethnic heritage. But if you ask the communications studies major what her ethnicity is, she\u2019d tell you she is three-quarters white, 12.5 percent black and 12.5 percent Native American\u2014a heritage she makes sure to represent when filling out surveys.<\/p>\n<p>The current generation of college students encompasses the largest group of mixed-race people to come of age in the U.S., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=11827\" target=\"_blank\">according to a recent <em>New York Times<\/em> series on multiracial identity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although young Americans increasingly identify themselves as multiracial, they often feel that their fluid identities are restricted when asked to self-identify on paper.<\/p>\n<p>Under new requirements set by the U.S. Department of Education, which will take effect this year, multiracial non-Hispanic students who choose multiple races on surveys will be placed in a &#8220;two or more races&#8221; category. The justification for this is to offer students of mixed heritage more options to self-identify, and some say it demonstrates the U.S.\u2019s greater appreciation of the fluidity of racial identity.<\/p>\n<p>However, many sociologists fear it will lump all multiracial groups into one category, ignoring the different life experiences and the varying levels of discrimination that members of various multiracial subgroups face.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s like the \u2018other\u2019 category or the \u2018multiracial\u2019 category because everyone get\u2019s glommed together and you can\u2019t even interpret it,&#8221; said sociology faculty member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.umn.edu\/people\/liebler_c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Liebler<\/a>. &#8220;It\u2019s a battle whenever you\u2019re trying to compile information about people\u2019s race. On the one hand, institutions want to know who you are, they want you to self-identify \u2026 but on the other hand, the entities that want to create statistics would really prefer if you could give a simple answer.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndaily.com\/2011\/02\/21\/racial-lines-no-longer-just-black-and-white\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndaily.com\/2011\/02\/21\/racial-lines-no-longer-just-black-and-white\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columns: Racial lines no longer just black and white The Minnesota Daily University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul 2011-02-21 Lolla Mohammed Nur Clear-cut racial categories restrict how multiracial Americans identify themselves. Based on her appearance, you wouldn\u2019t easily be able to guess University of Minnesota sophomore Mary Taylor\u2018s racial or ethnic heritage. But if you ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,14646,6,26,20],"tags":[172,171,5499,5497,5498,5500],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-new-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-carolyn-a-liebler","tag-carolyn-liebler","tag-lolla-m-nur","tag-lolla-mohammed-nur","tag-lolla-nur","tag-the-minnesota-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","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=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}