Word: racial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After four years of congressional hearings, Census advisory committee meetings and public comments, the federal government decided in 1997 to allow people to check as many racial categories as they want on the 2000 Census...
...change was made in response to pressure from the growing number of people in the U.S. who identify themselves as coming from more than one racial background--these people wanted to do more than check off "other" on the Census form...
...even though "mixed-race" will be an option, some people of mixed racial background may still choose not to specify their race...
...avoid using a particular terminology, The Crimson asked the students interviewed for this article to define their own racial background. But like the estimated 5 million Americans who in the mid-1990s identified themselves with more than one race, these students would all say they are multiracial...
...major difficulty mixed-race students said they face are assumptions and misconceptions about their racial identity...