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A NEW TAKE ON AN OLD IDEA: Do We Need Multiracial Studies?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2007

Victor Thompson
Victor Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Stanford University
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Publications about multiracial identity and the multiracial population increased significantly prior to the 2000 U.S. Census. Most of these publications emerged after 1997—a significant year in the recent history of studies on the multiracial population, as this was the year the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established new guidelines for collecting data on race, allowing people to choose more than one race (Office of Management and Budget 1997). It quickly became evident that this change in how the federal government tallies race was a significant event that merited the attention of academics. This surge in research on multiracial identity and the multiracial movement reflected, on the one hand, a push by multiracial advocates for more attention to the complexities of “being multiracial” and, on the other hand, a group of scholars interested in understanding the unfolding of these events.

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STATE OF THE DISCOURSE REVIEW ESSAYS
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 2006 , pp. 437 - 447
Copyright
© 2006 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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