{"id":55405,"date":"2017-12-20T17:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55405"},"modified":"2021-12-04T01:38:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T01:38:50","slug":"in-an-increasingly-mixed-race-america-who-decides-what-we-call-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55405","title":{"rendered":"In an increasingly mixed-race America, who decides what we call ourselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an increasingly mixed-race America, who decides what we call ourselves?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>
\n2017-12-18<\/p>\n

Valerie Russ<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n(Andy Stenning\/Pool Photo via AP)
\nPrince Harry<\/a> and his fiancee Meghan Markle<\/a> speak with teachers at the Nottingham Academy Dec. 1. <\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Last week, the Meghan Markle<\/a> controversy was her anticipated visit with Prince Harry<\/a> to Queen Elizabeth\u2019s<\/a> estate at Sandringham<\/a> for Christmas, an unprecedented invitation<\/a> for an unmarried couple.<\/p>\n

Before that, the debate was about Markle\u2019s mixed-race identity: Do her African American mother and white father make her white, black, or biracial? After her engagement to Harry, some women celebrated the notion<\/a> of a \u201cblack princess\u201d \u2014 although she\u2019ll actually be a duchess \u2014 while others argued she should be described as biracial<\/a>, not black.<\/p>\n

How to define, describe, and label mixed-race identity has been a brewing controversy in recent decades as the country becomes more racially diverse. Since the 2000 census, when Americans were first able to choose more than one race<\/a>, the Census Bureau reported that people of color will be the majority<\/a> in the nation by the 2040s and that more than half of American children<\/a> will be part of a minority race or ethnic group by 2020. In fact, as of last year, the census said minority or ethnic-group children under the age of 1<\/a> are already in the majority.<\/p>\n

The sociologist Herbert Gans<\/a> blamed Census Bureau data for the increase in white nationalism and alt-right fear \u201cthat they are being threatened and overwhelmed by a growing tide of darker-skinned people.\u201d He predicted that mixed-race Latinos and Asians will eventually identify themselves as white<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Camille Z. Charles<\/a>, the director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, is the daughter of an African American mother and a white father. Charles identifies as black. She is working on a book exploring the intra-racial diversity among black Americans who identify either as African American, mixed-race\/biracial, or black immigrant, tentatively titled The New Black: Race-Conscious or Post-Racial?<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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