{"id":5134,"date":"2010-02-08T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2012-08-21T03:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T03:17:33","slug":"multiracial-recognition-in-the-2000-census-a-personal-perpective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5134","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu\/prba\/perspectives\/winter2003\/hinojosa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perspectives<br \/>\nWinter 2003<br \/>\npages 48-58<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ikeita Cant\u00fa Hinojosa, JD, MSW<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>National Women\u2019s Law Center, Washington, D.C<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The census classification scheme chosen for race and ethnicity has become a prominent social fact in its own right and involves serious political and cultural consequences beyond its explicit policy purposes. Thus, it is not surprising that fierce controversy surrounded the federal government\u2019s decision to rescind its \u201ccheck only one race\u201d rule for the 2000 Census and implement a \u201cmark one or more races\u201d option in its place. The multirace option signals an official acknowledgment of a growing multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural population in the United States. As a black Chicana often required to select either the \u201cblack, non-Hispanic\u201d or \u201cHispanic\u201d option in answering demographic inquiries that mandate a single selection, I appreciate the opportunity to provide a more accurate description of myself by choosing both applicable categories; however, I question whether the scheme chosen to count race and ethnicity in the 2000 Census was the most appropriate approach to transition from the archaic \u201cone drop of blood\u201d conceptualization of race to a more fluid and complex understanding of the intersectionality of multiple identities. This paper provides a personal perspective on the recent 2000 Census racial and ethnic identity debate. <strong>I argue that the multirace option chosen, though not without fault, is preferable to both the retention of the old single-race classification and the creation of a new \u201cMultiracial\u201d category. The single-race option of the past reinforces a view of racial identity as exclusive and rigid, the proposed \u201cMultiracial\u201d category could cause a harsh blow to the progress made by the oppressed to date, and the multirace option implemented for the 2000 Census has the potential to blur psychological and sociological racial and ethnic lines without detracting from civil rights initiatives, signaling a new era in the social attitudes of Americans&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu\/prba\/perspectives\/winter2003\/hinojosa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective Perspectives Winter 2003 pages 48-58 Ikeita Cant\u00fa Hinojosa, JD, MSW National Women\u2019s Law Center, Washington, D.C The census classification scheme chosen for race and ethnicity has become a prominent social fact in its own right and involves serious political and cultural consequences beyond its explicit policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,394,20,25],"tags":[11595,2081,11594,2080],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-women","tag-ikeita-c-hinojosa","tag-ikeita-cantu-hinojosa","tag-ikeita-hinojosa","tag-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","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=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}