Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Keywords
multiracial, census, interracial, OMB statistical directive 15, racialization process
Abstract
One byproduct of increased interracial marriages post Loving is a growing number of multiracial children. This cohort of multiracials tends to overshadow older and larger generations of multiracial people whose genealogical mixture is more distant. Some interracial couples, their multiracial children and others support a multiracial category on the U.S. Census. Proponents argued that multiracial individuals experience a unique type of discrimination that warrants treating them as a separate racial category. This article concedes that multiracial individuals should enjoy the freedom to self-identify as they wish, and like others, be protected by anti-discrimination law. It concludes, however, that current arguments for a multiracial legal category are unpersuasive.
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Constitutional Law | Fourteenth Amendment | Law | Law and Race
Digital Commons Citation
Banks, Taunya L., "Multiracial Malaise: Multiracial as a Legal Racial Category" (2018). Faculty Scholarship. 1619.
https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/1619
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