Mark One Or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America

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University of Michigan Press, 27 ¡.¾. 2008 - 208 ˹éÒ
Mark One or More tells the little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape.

The movement to add a multiracial category to the 2000 U.S. Census provoked unprecedented debates about race. The effort made for strange bedfellows. Republicans like House Speaker Newt Gingrich and affirmative action opponent Ward Connerly took up the multiracial cause. Civil rights leaders opposed the movement on the premise that it had the potential to dilute the census count of traditional minority groups. The activists themselves—a loose confederation of organizations, many led by the white mothers of interracial children—wanted recognition. What they got was the transformation of racial politics in America.

Mark One or More is the compelling account of how this small movement sparked a big change, and a moving call to reassess the meaning of racial identity in American life.

Kim M. Williams is Associate Professor of Public Policy in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and an expert in racial and ethnic politics and political movements.

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Undoing the Working Definition of Race
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List of Tables and Figures
14
The Multiracial Census
39
Multiracial Category Legislation in the States
65
Bill Sponsorship and RollCall Votes
68
Bill Sponsors District Characteristics
75
Political Commitments
85
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Should the Multiracial Community Welcome
108
Other Race Reporting 19602000
118
Figures
124
Interracial Marriage Bans 195267
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Percent Black Latino and Asian in States with
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Kim M. Williams is Associate Professor of Public Policy in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and an expert in racial and ethnic politics and political movements.

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