{"id":8476,"date":"1999-07-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-07-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2021-09-17T03:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:01:50","slug":"addition-of-mixed-race-to-standard-racial-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1999\/07\/30\/addition-of-mixed-race-to-standard-racial-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Addition of \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 to Standard Racial Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Addition of \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 to Standard Racial Categories<\/strong><br><strong>Published in the Black Congressional Monitor<\/strong><br><strong>July 30, 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris Interactive, the producer of the Harris Poll which undertakes market research and consulting globally has recognized multi-racial identity as a separate classification on their online polls when asking respondents about race.&nbsp; The term \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 has been added to the standard racial categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journal Multiracial Activist, however, prefers the term \u2018Multiracial\u2019, but views this step by Harris as a significant development.&nbsp; Additional information available from James Landrith Jr at www.multiracial.com&nbsp;&nbsp; or&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010422223650\/mailto:racial_politics@hotmail.com\">racial_politics@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally published here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">http:\/\/subscribers.bcmonitor.com\/073099\/0730-main-frame.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addition of \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 to Standard Racial CategoriesPublished in the Black Congressional MonitorJuly 30, 1999 Harris Interactive, the producer of the Harris Poll which undertakes market research and consulting globally has recognized multi-racial identity&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[200],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-coverage","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-2cI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TMA-media-coverage.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}