{"id":55925,"date":"2018-03-18T00:08:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55925"},"modified":"2018-03-18T00:08:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:08:33","slug":"the-recursive-outcomes-of-the-multiracial-movement-and-the-end-of-american-racial-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55925","title":{"rendered":"The Recursive Outcomes of the Multiracial Movement and the End of American Racial Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0898588X17000074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Recursive Outcomes of the Multiracial Movement and the End of American Racial Categories<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/studies-in-american-political-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studies in American Political Development<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/studies-in-american-political-development\/issue\/8EB3C60A1AF0D053828C418130808519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 31, Issue 1<\/a> (April 2017)<br \/>\npages 88-107<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0898588X17000074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1017\/S0898588X17000074<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdx.edu\/hatfieldschool\/kim-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kim M. Williams<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>Portland State University, Portland, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a protracted national discussion about racial mixture in the early 1990s, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Office_of_Management_and_Budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of Management and Budget<\/a> made the unprecedented decision in 1997 to allow Americans to \u201cmark one or more\u201d racial categories on the 2000 census. A small \u201cmultiracial movement\u201d provoked this fundamental change in the way the government collects racial data. This case study shows that even very small and modest social movements can have profound effects on public policy through their unintended consequences. In winning a redefinition of how the U.S. government defines and counts by race, the multiracial movement of the 1990s set in motion a process that has both amplified and been amplified by broader structural and cultural changes in how Americans perceive race. The modest impact of a small social movement can ultimately produce very big consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/studies-in-american-political-development\/article\/recursive-outcomes-of-the-multiracial-movement-and-the-end-of-american-racial-categories\/4EF1D6158C0FEA4E65805FA84B0459C4#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recursive Outcomes of the Multiracial Movement and the End of American Racial Categories Studies in American Political Development Volume 31, Issue 1 (April 2017) pages 88-107 DOI: 10.1017\/S0898588X17000074 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science Portland State University, Portland, Oregon After a protracted national discussion about racial mixture in the early 1990s, the [&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":[71,47,1188],"class_list":["post-55925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-kim-m-williams","tag-kim-williams","tag-studies-in-american-political-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55925","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=55925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55926,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55925\/revisions\/55926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}