{"id":6618,"date":"2010-04-15T02:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T02:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2017-03-21T00:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:05:23","slug":"mixed-feelings-about-mixed-race-census-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6618","title":{"rendered":"Mixed feelings about mixed-race census option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2010\/03\/31\/mixed-feelings-about-mixed-race-census-option\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed feelings about mixed-race census option<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Stanford Daily<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2010\" target=\"_blank\">2010-03-31<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brianna Pang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2010 census, which hit mailboxes this month, is causing scholars and mixed-race people to debate, for just the second time in the count\u2019s history, the dilemma of whether or not to check multiple \u201crace\u201d boxes.<\/p>\n<p>One Stanford professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.stanford.edu\/people\/michele-elam\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Elam<\/a>, the director of the Program in African and African-American Studies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5745\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a recent op-ed<\/a> in <em>The Huffington Post<\/em> that people should consider \u201cthinking twice, but checking once,\u201d since the goal of the census is to diagnose the resources the federal government should offer.<\/p>\n<p>Elam said that the question of whether or not to check more than one box is not about meeting some level of \u201cmixedness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The question is] a recognition that \u2018race\u2019 is and has always been a broad political category that has had and continues to have real impacts,\u201d Elam wrote in e-mail to <em>The Daily<\/em>, \u201cand most important, in this context, is being invoked to help track inequities based on race and to distribute economic resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/dept\/soc\/people\/msnipp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Snipp<\/a>, the director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ccsre.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity program<\/a>, also commented on the effects of checking more than one box. According to Snipp, who has been involved in the census since the 1980s, census data is used to allocate $400 billion per year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;As determined by the Department of Justice in the 2000 Census, if one were considered a member of a protected minority group and also a majority group, then for civil rights enforcement purposes, the person is counted as the minority&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2010\/03\/31\/mixed-feelings-about-mixed-race-census-option\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 census, which hit mailboxes this month, is causing scholars and mixed-race people to debate, for just the second time in the count\u2019s history, the dilemma of whether or not to check multiple \u201crace\u201d boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,20],"tags":[2773,2774,1386,2772],"class_list":["post-6618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-brianna-pang","tag-matthew-snipp","tag-michele-elam","tag-the-stanford-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618","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=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52693,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions\/52693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}