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Author Spencer, Jon Michael, author.

Title The new colored people : the mixed-race movement in America / Jon Michael Spencer ; with a foreword by Richard E. van der Ross
Published New York : New York University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Contents The rainbow people of God -- The blessings of the one-drop rule -- The curses of the amorphous middle status -- Thou shalt not racially classify
Summary Most Americans remain oblivious of a new racial phenomenon that may radically alter the political landscape of the United States. In recent years, dramatic increases in racial intermarriage have given birth to a generation of mixed-race children whose interracially married parents refuse to allow them to be shoehorned into neat, pre-existing racial categories. The parents, through organizations they have founded or joined, have lobbied aggressively for the category "multiracial" to be added to official racial classifications at the state and federal levels, including the United States census. Since a nonracial society is one of the stated goals of the multiracialists, Spencer suggests that the undoing of racial classification will come not by initiating a new classification - which will only give Americans the impression that mixed-race people can be neatly classified - but by our increased recognition that there are millions of people who simply defy classification
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Racially mixed people -- United States.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Racially mixed people
Rassenmischung
Mengrassen.
Sociale bewegingen.
Metis -- États-Unis.
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96045791
ISBN 9780814771006
0814771009