{"id":36883,"date":"2014-07-25T20:34:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36883"},"modified":"2017-03-01T23:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T23:29:41","slug":"the-participating-organizations-from-across-the-country-reached-a-consensus-that-a-check-one-or-more-box-format-rather-than-a-separate-multiracial-identifier-would-serve-the-highest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36883","title":{"rendered":"The participating organizations from across the country reached a consensus that a \u201ccheck one or more box\u201d format rather than a separate multiracial identifier would serve the highest community good."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe participating organizations [of the Third Multiracial Leadership Conference in October 1997] from across the country reached a consensus that a \u201ccheck one or more box\u201d format rather than a separate multiracial identifier would serve the highest community good. It would: a) allow for the celebration of diverse heritages; b) support the continued monitoring of existing civil rights legislation that impacted multiracial people directly; and c) it would also provide the most information for the accurate collection of racial\/ethnic data for medical diagnosis and research&#8230; Only Project RACE rescinded its initial endorsement of the Multiracial Summit Statement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ramona Douglass, \u201cThe Evolution of the Multiracial Movement,\u201d in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36880\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Multiracial Child Resource Book: Living Complex Realities<\/em><\/a>, ed. Maria P. P. Root and Matt Kelley (Seattle: MAVIN Foundation, 2003), 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe participating organizations [of the Third Multiracial Leadership Conference in October 1997] from across the country reached a consensus that a \u201ccheck one or more box\u201d format rather than a separate multiracial identifier would serve the highest community good. It would: a) allow for the celebration of diverse heritages; b) support the continued monitoring of existing civil rights legislation that impacted multiracial people directly; and c) it would also provide the most information for the accurate collection of racial\/ethnic data for medical diagnosis and research&#8230;<\/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":[1722,2878,17629,1671],"class_list":["post-36883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-mavin-foundation","tag-project-race","tag-ramona-douglass","tag-ramona-e-douglass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36883","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=36883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51986,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36883\/revisions\/51986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}