{"id":12983,"date":"2011-03-30T14:54:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12983"},"modified":"2014-10-23T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T22:43:00","slug":"12983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12983","title":{"rendered":"Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2011.556194\" target=\"_blank\">Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=t713685087\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/35\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 35, Issue 8<\/a>, 2012<br \/>\npages 1409-1426<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2011.556194\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2011.556194<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/author.oit.ohio.edu\/pols\/profile.cfm?customel_datapageid_1683562=1884530\" target=\"_blank\">Debra Thompson<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>Ohio University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the same time period, the United States, Great Britain and Canada all moved towards &#8216;counting&#8217; mixed-race on their national censuses. In the United States, this move is largely attributed to the existence of a mixed-race social movement that pushed Congress for the change\u2014but similar developments in Canada and Britain occurred without the presence of a politically active civil society devoted to making the change. Why the convergence? This article argues that demographic trends, increasingly unsettled perceptions about discrete racial categories, and a transnational norm surrounding the primacy of racial self-identification in census-taking culminated in a normative shift towards <em>multiracial multiculturalism<\/em>. Therein, mixed-race identities are acknowledged as part of\u2014rather than problematic within\u2014diverse societies. These elements enabled mixed-race to be promoted, at times strategically, as a corollary of multiculturalism in these three countries.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/ftinterface~content=a935114909~fulltext=713240930~frm=content\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 8, 2012 pages 1409-1426 DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2011.556194 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University During the same time period, the United States, Great Britain and Canada all moved towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,33,8,26,394,10,20],"tags":[68,461],"class_list":["post-12983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-usa","tag-debra-thompson","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","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=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}