{"id":131377,"date":"2016-08-28T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/28\/mixed-answers-to-multiracial-terminology.html"},"modified":"2016-08-28T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T20:00:09","slug":"mixed-answers-to-multiracial-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/28\/mixed-answers-to-multiracial-terminology.html","title":{"rendered":"Mixed answers to multiracial terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the post yesterday about increasing numbers of people choosing &quot;Other&quot; on the US Census and other similar instruments, even when the opportunity to check off multiple boxes is available, I ran across this article, an interesting discussion (from a personal perspective) about the terminology used to describe people from more than one racial background (bearing in mind that race is a cultural identifier, not a biological one).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2016\/08\/25\/455470334\/all-mixed-up-what-do-we-call-people-of-multiple-backgrounds'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/sxUunHM72GEO1wHdEe_MYUAJOU9HNsOK1aypGut3J38ri9Q9TLqlGlINchhub7nvT75n5cRjnAfEhL0GXZAlwoxfqP9_86F-6sDrx6G-44l9G8eK1WrZVYZ2DnuktEwJ39ivTpUENZRuTHRbbEVoqs-srAPf1ff_KMbjJP75n0IxRiiue_veQ2kImXOe_-pzfOpEeGlECTI=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/codeswitch\/2016\/08\/25\/455470334\/all-mixed-up-what-do-we-call-people-of-multiple-backgrounds'>All Mixed Up: What Do We Call People Of Multiple Backgrounds?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe share of multiracial children in America has multiplied tenfold in the past 50 years. It&#8217;s a good time to take stock of our shared vocabulary when it comes to describing Americans like me.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Py3H19PKzR1'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the post yesterday about increasing numbers of people choosing &quot;Other&quot; on the US Census and other similar instruments, even when the opportunity to check off multiple boxes is available, I ran across this article, an interesting discussion (from a personal perspective) about the terminology used to describe people from more than one racial background &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/28\/mixed-answers-to-multiracial-terminology.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mixed answers to multiracial terminology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2560,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/04\/when_is_a_minor.html","url_meta":{"origin":131377,"position":0},"title":"When is a minority not a minority?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jun-02 3:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"USS Clueless discusses how population shifts are rendering politically correct terminology factually incorrect....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;ZT &amp; PC&quot;","block_context":{"text":"ZT &amp; PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/veddy_british.html","url_meta":{"origin":131377,"position":1},"title":"Veddy British","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Dec-06 9:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dealing with an international company means spelling and terminology variations. 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