Multiracial Pride Shows Up In New Census

Carol Ness, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, on “Multiracial Pride Shows Up In New Census / Mixed heritage now recognized“:

Stacey Bell of Berkeley, who like Dixon is part of I-Pride, the nation’s oldest group promoting multiracialism, said that for her children, 9-year-old Nico and 12-year-old Vanessa, checking boxes to define their race comes up at school, everywhere they turn, not just in the census. Bell is white and her ex- husband, their father, is black.

Ramona Douglass of AMEA is quoted in this article. Read the rest here.

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