{"id":23125,"date":"2012-05-16T02:34:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23125"},"modified":"2012-05-16T02:34:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T02:34:14","slug":"an-educational-defense-for-multiracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23125","title":{"rendered":"An educational defense for multiracial identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2001\/07\/25\/ED225347.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">An educational defense for multiracial identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><br \/>\n2001-07-25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kimberly Cooper-Plaszewski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Celebrate rather than assimilate biracial heritages<\/em><\/p>\n<p>U.S. CENSUS 2000 marked the first time in history that multiracial people were given the &#8220;option&#8221; to specify more than one race to describe their racial identity.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn the surface, this alternative may give the impression that people choosing to identify with more than one race on their census forms are endangering the plight of many civil rights activists and organizations with regard to civil rights appropriations.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nYet, contrary to this grossly widespread misconception, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget has determined that while racial data will be collected offering multiple race responses, those responses that combine one minority race and white will be allocated to the minority race for use in civil rights monitoring and enforcement&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8230;Rather than focusing indefinitely on what racial groups are supposedly losing from these changes to the census, let us, for the moment, focus on the fundamental gains for all racial and ethnic groups&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRead the entire opinion piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2001\/07\/25\/ED225347.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An educational defense for multiracial identity San Francisco Chronicle 2001-07-25 Kimberly Cooper-Plaszewski Celebrate rather than assimilate biracial heritages U.S. CENSUS 2000 marked the first time in history that multiracial people were given the &#8220;option&#8221; to specify more than one race to describe their racial identity. \u00a0 On the surface, this alternative may give the impression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,20],"tags":[10741,2820],"class_list":["post-23125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-kimberly-cooper-plaszewski","tag-san-francisco-chronicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125","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=23125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}