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Loving v. Virginia

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Personal Identity Equality And Racial Misrecognition: Review Essay Of Multiracials And Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories Of Discrimination, Taunya Lovell Banks Feb 2021

Personal Identity Equality And Racial Misrecognition: Review Essay Of Multiracials And Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories Of Discrimination, Taunya Lovell Banks

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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There is a growing body of social science literature documenting multiracials as an “emergent minority group. . . who . . . have not always been recognized as either a separate racial group or as legitimate members of racial groups.” Tanya Hernández has been writing about aspects of American multiracialism for twenty years. Her 1998 article in the MARYLAND LAW JOURNAL focused on the multiracial discourse about racial categories on the 2000 U.S. census. In that article, she analyzes the multiracial identity movement’s effort to get a multiracial category on the U.S. census. Although that movement failed, the 2000 …