{"id":984,"date":"2009-09-24T04:08:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T04:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=984"},"modified":"2013-01-10T00:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T00:30:33","slug":"beyond-racial-exceptionalism-explaining-the-convergence-of-mixed-race-census-categorizations-in-canada-the-u-s-and-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsa-acsp.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Political Science Association<\/a><br \/>\n81th Annual Conference<br \/>\n2009-05-27 through 2009-05-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/author.oit.ohio.edu\/pols\/profile.cfm?customel_datapageid_1683562=1884530\" target=\"_blank\">Debra Thompson<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>Ohio University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By examining racial classifications in national censuses this paper will explore moments of policy convergence that defy domestic explanations of the state\u2019s regulation of racial identities. <strong>During the same time period, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada all moved towards \u2018counting\u2019 mixed-race on their national censuses; given their previous divergences in other areas of racial regulation, even in terms of previous modes of racial classification, this recent convergence is puzzling. In the United States, this move is largely attributed to the existence of a mixed-race social movement that pushed Congress for the change \u2013 but parallel developments in Canada and the U.K. occurred without the presence of a politically active civil society devoted to making the change.<\/strong> This begs an interesting question: Why the convergence? When domestic explanations prove insufficient, what can comparisons tell us? This paper will demonstrate the political salience of global trends surrounding race and racialism \u2013 specifically, the transnational discourses of multiculturalism and recognition that have pervaded ethnopolitics since the 1990s. Ultimately, it seeks to challenge conventional domestic explanations for institutional racial categorization, rejecting \u2018exceptionalism\u2019 in the sphere of problematic race relations and demonstrating the ways in which race can be studied in comparative context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain Canadian Political Science Association 81th Annual Conference 2009-05-27 through 2009-05-29 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University By examining racial classifications in national censuses this paper will explore moments of policy convergence that defy domestic explanations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,8,14,26,10,20],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-census","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-politics","category-uk","category-usa","tag-debra-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","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=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}