Author: Da Costa Kimberly
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISSN: 1536-5042
Source: Contexts, Vol.4, Iss.4, 2005-0, pp. : 15-16
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Abstract
Jamie Tibbetts is a member of the Generation Mix National Awareness Tour. He and four other mixed-race young adults are driving across the country, making stops in sixteen cities to "raise awareness of America's multiracial baby boom" and "promote a national dialogue about the mixed-race experience." The tour is sponsored by the Mavin Foundation, which advocates on behalf of people who identify as being of mixed race in the United States. The Mavin Foundation continues and extends the work of earlier multiracial advocacy groups that coalesced around the issue of census classification in the 1990s and successfully challenged the federal "check one only" policy of racial enumeration. Beginning in 2000, the U.S. Census instructed people to "mark one or more" racial categories, resulting in new statistical measures of the "two or more races" population. (This interview was conducted in April 2005.)
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