{"id":4369,"date":"2010-01-07T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2013-03-25T22:04:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T22:04:19","slug":"mixing-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4369","title":{"rendered":"Mixing It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/caliber.ucpress.net\/doi\/abs\/10.1525\/ctx.2005.4.4.15\" target=\"_blank\">Mixing It Up<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caliber.ucpress.net\/loi\/ctx\" target=\"_blank\">Contexts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/caliber.ucpress.net\/toc\/ctx\/4\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Volume \u00a04, Number 4<\/a> (Fall 2005)<br \/>\nPages 15\u201316<br \/>\nDOI <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/ctx.2005.4.4.15\" target=\"_blank\">10.1525\/ctx.2005.4.4.15<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/gallatin\/about\/bios\/kimberly_dacosta.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kimberly McClain DaCosta<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor<br \/>\n<em>Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jamie Tibbetts is a member of the Generation Mix National Awareness Tour. He and four other mixed-race young adults are driving across the country, making stops in sixteen cities to \u201craise awareness of America&#8217;s multiracial baby boom\u201d and \u201cpromote a national dialogue about the mixed-race experience.\u201d The tour is sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavinfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mavin Foundation<\/a>, which advocates on behalf of people who identify as being of mixed race in the United States. The Mavin Foundation continues and extends the work of earlier multiracial advocacy groups that coalesced around the issue of census classification in the 1990s and successfully challenged the federal \u201ccheck one only\u201d policy of racial enumeration. Beginning in 2000, the U.S. Census instructed people to \u201cmark one or more\u201d racial categories, resulting in new statistical measures of the \u201ctwo or more races\u201d population. (This interview was conducted in April 2005.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixing It Up Contexts Volume \u00a04, Number 4 (Fall 2005) Pages 15\u201316 DOI 10.1525\/ctx.2005.4.4.15 Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Jamie Tibbetts is a member of the Generation Mix National Awareness Tour. He and four other mixed-race young adults are driving across the country, making stops in sixteen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,394,20],"tags":[1721,181,1722],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-contexts","tag-kimberly-mcclain-dacosta","tag-mavin-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","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=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}