Mark One or More Civil Rights in Multiracial America

Name: Mark One or More Civil Rights in Multiracial America
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ISBN: 9780472032808

ISBN-10: 0472032801

ISBN-13: 9780472032808

Edition: N/A

Authors: Kim M. Williams

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"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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 2/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



List of Tables and Figures


Preface



Introduction



Undoing the Working Definition of Race



The Multiracial Census



Multiracial Category Legislation in the States



Political Commitments



Growing Racial Diversity and the Civil Rights Future


Appendixes


Notes


Bibliography


Index