{"id":15324,"date":"2012-12-10T02:44:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15324"},"modified":"2021-08-17T02:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:11:58","slug":"social-policy-changes-due-to-more-americans-identifies-as-multiracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15324","title":{"rendered":"The best evidence suggests there has yet to be a sea change in the proportion of Americans selecting a multiracial identity."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The best evidence suggests there has yet to be a sea change in the proportion of Americans selecting a multiracial identity. Furthermore, practices of racial self-classification are much less likely to have any significant implications for the direction of social policies than practices of social classification\u2014<strong>how people are perceived and categorized racially and ethnically by others.<\/strong> A person\u2019s life chances are far more greatly influenced by how others see and situate them than by the individual\u2019s personal selection of a racial classification. Indeed, an individual\u2019s physical attributes and their interpretation by others often are the critical factors dictating how he or she is treated by others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>William Darity, Jr., \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=15275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How might social policies change as more Americans identify themselves as \u2018multiracial\u2019?<\/a>,\u201d <em>Good Question: An Exploration in Ethics series<\/em>, The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, July 9, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/kenan.ethics.duke.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GQ-Darity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/kenan.ethics.duke.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/GQ-Darity.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best evidence suggests there has yet to be a sea change in the proportion of Americans selecting a multiracial identity. Furthermore, practices of racial self-classification are much less likely to have any significant implications for the direction of social policies than practices of social classification\u2014how people are perceived and categorized racially and ethnically by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7067,7066,7068,7065],"class_list":["post-15324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-william-a-darity","tag-william-a-darity-jr","tag-william-darity","tag-william-darity-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324","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=15324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61250,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions\/61250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}