{"id":5678,"date":"2010-03-05T22:14:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:37:14","slug":"how-will-barack-obama-fill-out-his-census-form-the-future-of-miscegenation-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5678","title":{"rendered":"How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

FSB Media<\/a>
\n2009<\/p>\n

Rich Benjamin<\/strong><\/p>\n

The President says publicly that he is “African-American.”But will he check “black” or “two or more races” on his 2010 Census form?<\/em><\/p>\n

My parents, two dark-skinned blacks, married in 1967, a year when miscegenation<\/a> — interracial marriage, cohabitation or sex — was a criminal offense in sixteen states. But now, like the Obamas, my family descends from and lives across three continents and about a dozen nations. My cousins, nieces, and nephews have complexions reminiscent of a Ben & Jerry’s menu ranging from Karamel Sutra to Chocolate Fudge Brownie.<\/p>\n

Given America’s growing and intermixed minority populations, controversy broils about how Uncle Sam<\/a> categorizes, then counts, ethnicity and race (more vociferously from minorities than from whites). Black civil rights advocates strong-arm those with traces of African ancestry to identify as “black,” so as not to dilute blacks’ 2010 census numbers and future political power. Defining and counting mixed-race people in America has historically been riddled with conceptual and practical challenges. Now as much as ever. President Obama<\/a> says publicly that he is “African-American.” But will he check “black” or “two or more races” on his 2010 Census form?…<\/p>\n

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How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America FSB Media 2009 Rich Benjamin The President says publicly that he is “African-American.”But will he check “black” or “two or more races” on his 2010 Census form? My parents, two dark-skinned blacks, married in 1967, a year when miscegenation — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,33,6,26,394,20],"tags":[2386,2385],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-census","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-fsb-media","tag-rich-benjamin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","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=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}