Making (mixed-)race
Census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2145998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debra Thompson (0000-0001-6191-4461, Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1409-1426 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2011.556194 |
| OpenAlex | W2084203890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 28 |
During the same time period, the United States, Great Britain and Canada all moved towards 'counting' mixed-race on their national censuses. In the United States, this move is largely attributed to the existence of a mixed-race social movement that pushed Congress for the change - but similar developments in Canada and Britain occurred without the presence of a politically active civil society devoted to making the change. Why the convergence? This article argues that demographic trends, increasingly unsettled perceptions about discrete racial categories, and a transnational norm surrounding the primacy of racial self-identification in census-taking culminated in a normative shift towards multiracial multiculturalism. Therein, mixed-race identities are acknowledged as part of - rather than problematic within - diverse societies. These elements enabled mixed-race to be promoted, at times strategically, as a corollary of multiculturalism in these three countries
Census · Mixed race · Multiculturalism · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Race (biology · Sociology · Census and Population Estimation · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
What Lies Beneath
Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis
Voting Behaviour in Canada
Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century
Two or More
Official classification, affirmative action, and self-identification
Racial Differences in Black and White Residential Outcomes in the Sundown Era
From Multiracial to Transgender
Beyond race
There’s Something Very Wrong with the System in This Country”
B lack‐ W hite Biracial Children's Social Development from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade
Making Black Motherhood (In)Visible
Lessons for Measuring Jewish Identity from Racial Categorization in Population Censuses
Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy in Brazil
Whites’ Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy
Who are we and how many?“ – Zur statistischen Konstruktion globaler Personenkategorien
Race Counts
What are you?” Multiracial individuals’ responses to racial identification inquiries
A sensitive question? The effect of an ethnic background question in surveys
Déconstruire l’« identité », théoriser la race
Exceptionalism with Non-Validation
Mapping Black mixed-race Birmingham
Multiracial Categorization, Identity, and Policy in (Mixed) Racial Formations
Vertical and horizontal approaches to the making of racial statistics in Britain
The Black image in the white mind
The new Americans
Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 1890
Shades of Citizenship
Census and Identity
Crossing racial lines
Making Multiracials
Race in North America
The Ironies of Affirmative Action
Racial categories used in the decennial censuses, 1790 to the present
Negotiating race and ethnicity
The conceptualisation and categorisation of mixed race/ethnicity in Britain and North America
Introduction
Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930
Ethnic Classification in Global Perspective
The measurement of racial discrimination
Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century
America's Changing Color Lines
Racial classifications in the US census
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |