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ISSUES - Abolition of Racial Categorization



Click on the news links below to read articles, stories, studies, etc. discussing this issue. Also, check out these related weblog archive pages:

  • A Mixed Blog: Abolition of Racial Classifications
  • James Landrith: Racial Privacy


    Are calculus professors racist?: The consequences of Affirmative Action
    by Chett (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/chett4.html (October/November 2003)

    Racial Classification Is Not a Civil Rights Measure
    by Susanne M.J. Heine (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/heine.html (October/November 2003)

    The Enemy of My Enemy
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/landrith8.html (October/November 2003)

    Prop. 54 author undaunted by polls
    by Katherine Corcoran (The Mercury News)
    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/689 5798.htm (September 30, 2003)

    Californians to Vote on Collecting Racial Identity Data
    by Molly Peterson (VOANews.com)
    http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?object ID=1C4DEDFD-B3DF-4DB4-82B1F1C93B663497 (September 30, 2003)

    No single policy for racial data
    by Jim Sanders (The Sacramento Bee)
    http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/7499767p -8441894c.html (September 28, 2003)

    County activists lead suit over race-data ballot issue
    by Joe Livernois (Monterey Herald)
    http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/local/6469829.htm (August 6, 2003)

    Challenging the Racist Democrats in California
    by Marv Essary (Chron Watch)
    http://www.chronwatch.com/editorial/contentDisplay.asp?aid=3744 (August 5, 2003)

    Proposition takes on racial privacy
    by Cindy Carcamo (The Fresno Bee)
    http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/7242478p-8169686c.html (August 5, 2003)

    Initiative puts data for research in doubt
    by Susan L. Thomas (East Bay Business Times)
    http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2003/08/04/story1.html (August 4, 2003)

    Racial data helps spot, fix problems
    (Dayton Daily News)
    http://www.daytondailynews.com/opinion/content/opinion/daily/0805ward.html (August 4, 2003)

    Kindly Government Agents Want to Know: What Race are You?
    by Chett (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/chett.html (August/September 2003)

    Michigan GOP says: 'Colorblind = Division, not Unity'
    by Chett (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/chett2.html (August/September 2003)

    July 21 Letter to Representative John D. Dingell
    by Ward Connerly (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/connerly6.html (August/September 2003)

    Breaking The Chains
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/landrith7.html (August/September 2003)

    Common Sense From An Uncommon Man
    by Frank Salvato (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/salvato.html (August/September 2003)

    The PCspeak of Diversity
    by Wendy McElroy (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/mcelroy5.html (August/September 2003)

    Little Boxes, Little Boxes
    by Margaret L. Snyder (OpinionEditorials.com)
    http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/snyder_20030721.html (July 21, 2003)

    Fall vote eyed for California ban on race-data collection
    by Steve Sexton (The Washington Times)
    http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030720-115939-7502r.htm (July 21, 2003)

    Letter to the Editor: Defining Race, a Thorny Issue
    by Robert Schwartz, M.D. (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/opinion/L13RACE.html (July 13, 2003)

    Movement wants government barred from asking about race or ethnicity
    (Jewish World Review)
    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0703/racial_privacy.asp (July 3, 2003)

    "Black America" -- The Ultimate Anachronism
    by Susanne M.J. Heine (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/sheine10.html (July/August 2003)

    Foreseeable Consequences of Recent Changes in the One-Drop Rule
    by Frank W. Sweet (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/sweet16.html (July/August 2003)

    Some seek ban on collection of ethnic data
    by Robert Tomsho (The Wall Street Journal)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/06/30/financial1026EDT0045.DTL (June 30, 2003)

    Black and White: Racial Categories Becoming Increasingly Blurred
    by George Will (ABCNEWS.com)
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/ThisWeek/Politics/george_will_030629.html (June 29, 2003)

    Change in Ethnicity
    by Ward Connerly (Frontpage Magazine)
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8191 (June 3, 2003)

    Happy To Mix It All Up: For Young America, Old Ethnic Labels No Longer Apply
    by Joel Kotkin and Thomas Tseng (The Washington Post)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2676 4-2003Jun6.html (June 8, 2003)

    Connerly's race initiative deserves some honest debate
    by Daniel Weintraub (The Sacramento Bee)
    http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/columns/weintraub/story/6815283p-7765603c.html (June 8, 2003)

    'Some other race?'
    by Louis Freedberg (San Francisco Chronicle)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/02/ED256430.DTL (June 2, 2003)

    The Wrong Way to Diversify
    by Ron Bronson, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/bronson3.html (June/July 2003)

    What's It Gonna Be? Collectivist Racialism or Individualism?
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/landrith6.html (June/July 2003)

    Speech: Categorization Equals Racism
    by Lisa Nelson (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/nelson.html (June/July 2003)

    The RPI and why it doesn't work in the minds of bureaucrats
    by Susanne M.J. Heine (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/sheine9.html (May/June 2003)

    Fade From ‘Black’: Reflections of a Human
    by Adam Abraham (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/adam21.html (May/June 2003)

    Unhyphenated Canadians and Americans
    by Ben Griffin (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/griffin2.html (May/June 2003)

    Censuring the Census
    (Harvard Magazine)
    http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/030373.html (March/April 2003)

    Molecular Anthropology and the "Race" Notion
    by Frank W. Sweet (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/sweet14.html (March/April 2003)

    Toward 'Equal' Treatment: An Inoculation Against Special Treatment Viruses (STVs)
    by Adam Abraham (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/adam20.html (March/April 2003)

    Civil Rights, Libertarianism and Reclaiming the Dream
    by W. James Antle III (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/antle.html (February/March 2003)

    Is Diversity Good?
    by Harry V. Jaffa (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/jaffa.html (February/March 2003)

    Outing Race: An Essay
    by David M. Loucas, MD (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/loucas.html (February/March 2003)

    Affirmative Action Insults Immigrant Contributions
    by Wendy McElroy (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/mcelroy3.html (February/March 2003)

    Keynote Speech To The Interstate Conference On Race Relations II
    by William Stone, III (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/stone.html (February/March 2003)

    Let's Get Race Out of the Equation Once and Forever
    by Jim Sparkman (ChronWatch)
    http://www.chronwatch.com/editorial/contentDisplay.asp?aid=1367 (January 22, 2003)

    Another shade of black
    by Suzy Hansen (Salon)
    http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/01/14/mcwhorter/index.html (January 14, 2003)

    The Journey to 'Equal' Self Perception: Arcing of Conscience From 'Black' to Human
    by Adam Abraham (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/adam19.html (January/February 2003)

    The Last Days of Race
    by Ron Bronson, Jr. (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/bronson.html (January/February 2003)

    A Paler Shade of Black
    by Linda Beckerman, Ph.D. (The Multiracial Activist)
    http://www.multiracial.com/readers/beckerman.html (December 2002/January 2003)

    Fear, Rhetoric, and Racial Boxes - When Simple Truths Are Submerged In Complexity
    by Adam Abraham (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/adam16.html (September/October 2002)

    Biologically Speaking, Race Doesn't Exist
    by Radley Balko (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/balko2.html (August/September 2002)

    Halle, Hollywood and Race
    by Ward Connerly (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/connerly3.html (August/September 2002)

    Ambiguity and Bubblegum Idiots
    by James Landrith (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/landrith4.html (August/September 2002)

    Leonard Pitts, Mr. Impossible
    by James Landrith (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/landrith5.html (August/September 2002)

    A colorblind America isn't possible, or even desirable
    by Leonard Pitts (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
    http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/jul02/60334.asp (July 20, 2002)

    The NAACP's Decline and Fall: How a once-great organization became irrelevant.
    by Ward Connerly (OpinionJournal)
    http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110002018 (July 20, 2002)

    The Biological Case Against Race
    by Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (American Outlook)
    http://www.americanoutlook.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=article_detail&id=1685 (Spring 2002)

    Redefining Racism
    by Alan J. Levine (American Outlook)
    http://www.americanoutlook.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=article_detail&id=1687 (Spring 2002)

    Separate Colors, Separate Minds
    by Michael Meyers, John P. Nidiry (American Outlook)
    http://www.americanoutlook.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=article_detail&id=1688 (Spring 2002)

    Freedom from Race
    by David Horowitz (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidhorowitz/dh20020710.shtml (July 10, 2002)

    Focus debate on merits, not politics: Racial privacy campaign meets requirements of state law
    by Kevin T. Nguyen (San Francisco Chronicle)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/17/ED197433.DTL (June 17, 2002)

    Racial Privacy Initiative needs sun: Loophole allows masking of donors, but is it legal?
    by Eve Pell (San Francisco Chronicle)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/17/ED11508.DTL (June 17, 2002)

    No Beans
    by Deroy Murdock (National Review)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock060402.asp (June 4, 2002)

    Tiger Won't Succumb to Political Pressure
    by Radley Balko (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/balko.html (June/July 2002)

    Should Our Race Be Private?
    by J. Bradley Jansen (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/jansen.html (June/July 2002)

    Ah, Color Blindness, defending Ward Connerlys RPI
    by George Winkel (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/winkel.html (June/July 2002)

    Should Our Race Be Private?
    by J. Bradley Jansen (Accuracy In Media)
    http://www.aim.org/publications/guest_columns/jansen/2002/20may2002.html (May 20, 2002)

    Should Our Race Be Private?
    by J. Bradley Jansen (Enter Stage Right)
    http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0502/0502racerpi.htm (May 20, 2002)

    Should Our Race Be Private?
    by J. Bradley Jansen (CNSNews.com)
    http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200205\COM20020515d.html (May 15, 2002)

    Should Our Race Be Private?
    by J. Bradley Jansen (Free Congress Foundation)
    http://www.freecongress.org/press/offpress/020515BJ.htm (May 15, 2002)

    Colorblind bind
    by Debra Saunders (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/debrasaunders/ds20020513.shtml (May 13, 2002)

    "Race"ing Towards Sanity
    by James Landrith (Liberty For All)
    http://www.libertyforall.net/2002/archive/racing-to-sanity.html (May 9, 2002)

    Tired of race?
    by Thomas Sowell (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20020509.shtml (May 9, 2002)

    Ah, Color Blindness? Connerly's Deceptive Vision
    by Emil Guillermo (San Francisco Chronicle)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/archive/2002/05/07/eguillermo.DTL (May 7, 2002)

    California tests racial boundaries
    by Mark Sappenfield (The Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0506/p01s01-ussc.html (May 6, 2002)

    Chicken little returns
    by Ward Connerly (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/wardconnerly/wc20020501.shtml (May 1, 2002)

    False 'Patriots,' Freedom and Race Privacy Wedges Are Not 'Tools' Of Unity
    by Adam Abraham (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/adam14.html (May/June 2002)

    Tiger Won't Succumb to Political Pressure
    by Radley Balko (FOXNews.com)
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,50454,00.html (April 25, 2002)

    Editorial: Classifying Citizens: The Racial Privacy Initiative
    (The Daily Californian)
    http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=8454 (April 23, 2002)

    980,000 sign initiative on race: Connerly: Privacy measure qualifies
    by Justin Pritchard (San Diego Union-Tribune/Associated Press)
    http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/sat/news/news_1n20color.html (April 20, 2002)

    Is Tiger Woods Black?
    by Debbie Schlussel (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/debbieschlussel/ds20020419.shtml (April 19, 2002)

    When it Comes to Race, We're All Mixed
    by Stanley Crouch (New York Daily News)
    http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-04-15/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-147593.asp (April 15, 2002)

    Kudos California!
    by Ward Connerly (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/wardconnerly/wc20020412.shtml (April 12, 2002)

    Erasing Race: The Ward Connerly Approach
    by Jabari Asim (BlackElectorate.com)
    http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=585 (April 8, 2002)

    9-11 and the Race Industry
    by Ward Connerly (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/connerly2.html (April/May 2002)

    Identity Politics Dismisses Shared Humanity
    by Wendy McElroy (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/mcelroy2.html (April/May 2002)

    Profiled Becomes Profiler
    by Diane Schachterle (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/schachterle.html (April/May 2002)

    Court "Remedies" Union Discrimination with More Racial Tracking
    by Diane Schachterle (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/schachterle2.html (April/May 2002)

    Dropping The 'One Drop' Rule
    by George Will (Newsweek)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/725328.asp (March 25, 2002)

    Naming names
    by Thomas Sowell (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20020314.shtml (March 14, 2002)

    Race rationales vs. results
    by Thomas Sowell (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20020313.shtml (March 13, 2002)

    Eradicating Essentialism from Cultural Competency Education
    by Kathleen Fuller, Ph.D. (Academic Medicine Online)
    http://www.academicmedicine.org/cgi/content/abstract/77/3/198 (2002)

    Do Racial Differences Really Exist? Or Were They Manufactured by Americans?
    by Barbara Frankel (DiversityInc.com)
    http://www.diversityinc.com/public/2506.cfm (March 4, 2002)

    Race Changes: On the porousness of racial identity
    by Matt Kelley (BET.com)
    http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featkelley_161.shtml (February 22, 2002)

    'Butter' probes hidden racism
    by M.S. Mason (The Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0222/p19s01-almp.html (February 22, 2002)

    Rotten Rule: The Fed's silly little boxes.
    by Roger Clegg (National Review)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/clegg021402.shtml (February 14, 2002)

    Government Keeps Race Issue Alive
    by Radley Balko (FOXNews)
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,45523,00.html (February 14, 2002)

    Racial Privacy Initiative: Readers Guide
    (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/rpireadersguide.html (February/March 2002)

    Ending the anachronism of racial labels
    by Vin Suprynowicz (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/suprynowicz2.html (February/March 2002)

    Minority
    by Mary Wiltenburg (Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0131/p14s01-idgn.html (January 31, 2002)

    Mourning a moment passed: when race didn't matter
    by Joyce King (Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0130/p21s02-coop.html (January 30, 2002)

    Biologically Speaking, Race Doesn't Exist
    by Radley Balko (FOXNews.com)
    http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,43298,00.html (January 17, 2002)

    Inventing Hispanics: A Diverse Minority Resists Being Labeled
    by Amitai Etzioni (Brookings Review)
    http://www.brook.edu/press/REVIEW/winter2002/etzioni.htm (Winter 2002)

    Races as the Same Machine in Different Colors
    by Linda Villarosa (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/01/health/genetics/01CONV.html (January 1, 2002)

    The controversial question of race
    by Lori Hinnant (The Bergen Record/Associated Press)
    http://www.bergen.com/news/race01200201018.htm (January 1, 2002)

    Hiding Race
    by Daniel HoSang (ColorLines)
    http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story4_4_03.html (Winter 2001-2002)

    Race not at heart of America
    by Don Feder (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/donfeder/df20011219.shtml (December 19, 2001)

    Thurgood Marshall Was Right
    by Edward Blum (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/blum2.html (December 2001/January 2002)

    The New Civil War
    by David F. Forte (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/forte2.html (December 2001/January 2002)

    Isn't It 2001?
    by M. Royce Van Tassell (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/vantassell4.html (December 2001/January 2002)

    Under the Skin of Diversity
    by M. Royce Van Tassell (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/vantassell5.html (December 2001/January 2002)

    The Racial Privacy Initiative
    by Ward Connerly (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/connerly5.html (December 2001)

    'Race Experts': Against Sensitivity Training
    by Alan Wolfe (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/books/review/09WOLFET.html (December 9, 2001)

    Post '911:' On Asking Ourselves 'What Is Important?' Focus On Humanity
    by Adam Abraham (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/adam11.html (November/December 2001)

    One more reflection on "race"
    by Susanne M.J. Heine (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/sheine5.html (November/December 2001)

    Race and the Media
    by Ronald Bronson, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/bronson2.html (October/November 2001)

    Islam vs. Radical Islam
    by David Forte (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/forte.html (October/November 2001)

    Race, Smiles and The Wonderful World of Disney
    by K. Francis (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/kfrancis.html (October/November 2001)

    Statement on the Racial Privacy Initiative
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/landrith3.html (October/November 2001)

    Now's the time to drop hyphens that divide us
    by John Kass (The Chicago Tribune)
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0109190255sep19.column (September 19, 2001)

    The Race Question
    by Sara V. Buckwitz (Utne Reader)
    http://www.utne.com/webwatch/archive.tpl?d=09/05/2001 (September 5, 2001)

    Shifting the Tides of Existential Debate To the Birth of I Can
    by Adam Abraham (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/adam10.html (September/October 2001)

    The Race Question
    by Silja J.A. Talvi (LiP Magazine)
    http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/feattalvi_123.shtml (August 20, 2001)

    Preferences, Racial Classifications and Page
    by Ward Connerly (Jewish World Review)
    http://jewishworldreview.com/0801/connerly.html (August 1, 2001)

    We're Not Ready For 'Colorblindness'
    by Clarence Page (The Chicago Tribune)
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0107290269jul29.column?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dcol (July 29, 2001)

    Scrapping the racial paradigm would be giant step toward ending racism
    by Charles Michael Byrd (The Augusta Chronicle)
    http://augustachronicle.com/stories/080101/opi_UE0213-6.shtml (August 1, 2001)

    Let's Rid Ourselves of Those Silly Race Boxes
    by Ward Connerly (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/connerly.html (August/September 2001)

    To Be, or Not To Be: Ebony Magazine and the Non-Existence of Black Conservatives
    by Michael Finch and Thomas Krannawitter (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/finch-krannawitter.html (August/September 2001)

    America's Racial Divide: Of Debts Spoken and Unspoken
    by Lucas E. Morel (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/morel.html (August/September 2001)

    Does Race Exist?
    by G.L. Pettigrew (the typo)
    http://www.thetypo.com/doesrace.htm

    Transcending 'race consciousness' - The 'other' side explains the need for the new multiracial category
    by Charles Michael Byrd (San Francisco Chronicle)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/25/ED71796.DTL (July 25, 2001)

    Rise of the blended American
    by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/190/oped/Rise_of_the_blended_American+.shtml (July 9, 2001)

    Color-blind? Or blinded? The irrelevance of race
    by Ward Connerly (San Francisco Chronicle)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/07/08/IN137261.DTL (July 8, 2001)

    Who's white? Who's Latino? Who cares?
    by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe)
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/186/oped/Who_s_white_Who_s_Latino_Who_cares_+.shtml (July 5, 2001)

    So What If (insert ethnicity here) Don't Play Pro Sports?
    by Brad Edmonds (LewRockwell.com)
    http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds49.html (June 18, 2001)

    An End to Counting by Race?
    by Tamar Jacoby (Commentary Magazine)
    http://www.commentarymagazine.com/0106/jacoby.htm (June 2001)

    Affirmative-Action Foe Wants To Prohibit Questions About Race
    by Jordan T. Pine (DiversityInc.com)
    http://www.diversityinc.com/insidearticlepg.cfm?SubMenuID=330&ArticleID=3186&CFID=243983&CFTOKEN=97214391 (June 11, 2001)

    Groundbreaking Proposal Launched in California to Free People from Boxes
    by Kevin Nguyen (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/nguyen2.html (June/July 2001)

    California's Great Race Debate
    by Lee Hubbard (Africana.com)
    http://www.africana.com/DailyArticles/index_20010606.htm (June 6, 2001)

    True Colors: The Confusion Over Who We Are
    by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/weekinreview/03HOLM.html (June 3, 2001)

    Who Are You? When Perception Is Reality
    by Gregory Rodriguez (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/weekinreview/03RODR.html (June 3, 2001)

    Ward Connerly's New Cause
    by Michael W. Lynch (Reason Magazine)
    http://www.reason.com/ml/ml053101.html (May 31, 2001)

    Counting Colors
    by Clarence Page (Online NewsHour)
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/jan-june01/colors_05-31.html (May 31, 2001)

    Seeking the Parents of Us All: Projects that compare DNA from thousands of living people suggest everyone is descended from one African group
    by Robert Lee Hotz (The Los Angeles Times)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/20010528/t000044705.html (May 28, 2001)

    We need to separate race and state
    by Deroy Murdock (Biloxi Sun Herald)
    http://web.sunherald.com/content/biloxi/2001/05/23/opinion/3725402_05232001.htm (May 23, 2001)

    DNA Shows Black Genes in White Britons
    (Reuters)
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010519/sc/science_britain_black_dc_1.html (May 19, 2001)

    Drop racial categories from census
    (The Tampa Tribune)
    http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGAFP6TQQMC.html (May 15, 2001)

    On Race Relations: Color Me Confused
    by Larry Elder (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20010510.shtml (May 10, 2001)

    Racial Classifications Seem Step Back In Time
    by Jonah Goldberg (National Review)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20010511.shtml (May 11, 2001)

    "Proof of Ethnicity"
    by Roger Clegg (National Review)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/clegg051001.shtml (May 10, 2001)

    California, others consider dropping the word "minority"
    by Erica Werner (Salon)
    http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2001/05/08/minority/index.html (May 8, 2001)

    Views on Equality
    by Linda Bowles (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/lindabowles/lb20010501.shtml (May 1, 2001)

    Towards a twenty-first century vision of race*: Why we should get rid of the boxes altogether
    by Ward Connerly (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/connerly3.html (May/June 2001)

    Drama Overload
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/landrith5.html (May/June 2001)

    Ward Connerly Warmly Received at UMass/Amherst
    by Izzy Lyman (The Massachusetts News)
    http://www.massnews.com/501ward.htm (May 2001)

    Small Tribe Founded Europe
    (Wired News/Associated Press)
    http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,43231,00.html (April 23, 2001)

    UC regent introduces new initiative to abolish collection of racial data
    by S.F. Zook (The California Aggie)
    http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010419/politics-253 (April 19, 2001)

    Measure seeks to curb racial data: Connerly seeks a vote on his plan to sharply limit government collection of race statistics in the state.
    by Kevin Yamamura (The Sacramento Bee)
    http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert01_20010412.html (April 12, 2001)

    Does the concept of race have any value in a positive future?
    by Timothy Wilken (Future Positive)
    http://futurepositive.synearth.net/2001/04/05 (April 5, 2001)

    Charles Byrd: Forging an Identity Between Black and White
    by Lee Hubbard (Africana.com)
    http://www.africana.com/index_20010405_2.htm (April 5, 2001)

    The Illusion of Categorical Identity
    by Delmar England (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/england.html (April/May 2001)

    Childhood's End
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/landrith2.html (April/May 2001)

    Losing The Race - Self-Sabotage In Black America
    by John H. McWhorter (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/mcwhorter.html (April/May 2001)

    DNA and Vermont, Part One: DNA Testing, Vermont H. 809, and the First Nations
    by Nokwisa Yona (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/yona-partone.html (April/May 2001)

    DNA and Vermont, Part Two: DNA Validity and Capability in Ethnic Identification
    by Nokwisa Yona (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/yona-parttwo.html (April/May 2001)

    DNA and Vermont, Part Three: Genetic Classification of Race - A Lack of Class - Inroad to Racism
    by Nokwisa Yona (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/yona-partthree.html (April/May 2001)

    Racial profiling of authors
    by Thomas Sowell (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20010329.shtml (March 29, 2001)

    Overcome race, or it will overcome us
    by Joe H. Stroud (Detroit Free-Press)
    http://www.freep.com/voices/columnists/ejoe28_20010328.htm (March 28, 2001)

    Lise Funderburg and the Truth about One-Drop
    by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor28.html (March/April 2001)

    The Genetic Archaeology of Race
    by Steve Olson (The Atlantic Monthly)
    http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/04/olson-p1.htm (April 2001)

    Nation's totem pole gets a realignment
    by William Raspberry (The Seattle Times)
    http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=raspberry13&date=20010313 (March 13, 2001)

    Mixed-Race Categories: Clarity or Confusion?
    by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post)
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60433-2001Mar12.html (March 13, 2001)

    Census 'can of worms' makes experts squirm
    by Stuart Eskenazi (The Seattle Times)
    http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=census13m&date=20010313 (March 13, 2001)

    One Race Just Isn't Enough
    by Althea Chang (PopPresents)
    http://64.225.71.59/html/308presents_stories.asp (March 13, 2001)

    Census redefines race, diversity - AMERICANS RETHINK CLASSIFICATIONS AS MIXED-HERITAGE NUMBERS GROW
    by Anne Martinez (San Jose Mercury News)
    http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/mixedrace12.htm (March 12, 2001)

    Color me human
    by Tracy Rose (Mountain Xpress)
    http://www.mountainx.com/news/2001/0307relations.html (March 7, 2001)

    Census Sense and Nonsense
    by Roger Clegg (National Review)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/clegg030701.shtml (March 7, 2001)

    Embracing the Human Circle - Putting the Spirit of 'Us vs. Them' to Rest
    by Adam Abraham (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.interracialvoice.com/adam7.html (March/April 2001)

    Clinton Whitewash
    by Lowell Ponte (FrontPage Magazine)
    http://frontpagemag.com/columnists/ponte/2001/ponte02-28-01.htm (March 1, 2001)

    Numbers define us less and less
    by Diana Griego Erwin (The Sacramento Bee)
    http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local05_20010222.html (February 22, 2001)

    Building Blocks of Humanity
    by Jack Kemp (TownHall.com)
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jackkemp/jk20010221.shtml (February 21, 2001)

    Race and the Human Genome
    by Kim Hohman (About.com Race Relations)
    http://racerelations.about.com/newsissues/racerelations/library/weekly/aa021501a.htm (February 15, 2001)

    UC regent wants all race data eliminated
    by Erin Hyun (Daily Californian)
    http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010215/university-70 (February 15, 2001)

    Race gene does not exist, say scientists
    by Eric Sorenson (The Seattle Times)
    http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=race11m&date=20010211 (February 11, 2001)

    Value of the Individual - Gift of Y'shua Jesus
    by James Fletcher Baxter (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/baxter.html (February/March 2001)

    Wasn't Mended
    by M. Royce Van Tassell (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/vantassell3.html (February/March 2001)

    The Biology of Skin Color: Black and White
    by Gina Kirchweger (Discover)
    http://www.discover.com/feb_01/featbiology.html (February 2001)

    Humanity is Multiracial -- Already
    by Suzanne Heine (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/sheine4.html (January/February 2001)

    The hyphen hangup is un-American
    by Don Feder (Boston Herald)
    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/feder01082001.htm (January 8, 2001)

    The Dam is Breaking
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/landrith4.html (January/February 2001)

    What's Holding Blacks Back
    by John H. McWhorter (City Journal)
    http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_whats_holding_blacks.html (Winter 2001 - Vol. 11, No. 1)

    . . . but First, Let's End the Preference Paradigm
    by Ward Connerly (The Los Angeles Times)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20001219/t000121022.html (December 19, 2000)

    Essay: Does Race Really Exist?
    by Jacquelene S. Waller (Rutgers University)
    http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~jacquewa/racedoesnotexist.htm (December 2000)

    Election 2000: The Venom of Race
    by Kevin Nguyen (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/nguyen.html (December 2000/January 2001)

    Here's a radical thought: If we stop obsessing on race, people may actually become colorblind
    by Robyn Blumner (Jewish World Review)
    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/blumner1.asp (December 7, 2000)

    Bursting Asunder: Census 2000 and America's Regime of Race Data Collection
    by M. Royce Van Tassell (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/royce.html (November/December 2000)

    God Squad: Race The Dividing Line?
    by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/godsquad.html (November/December 2000)

    A Race For The Millenium: How About Human?
    by Ami Chen Mills (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/amichen2.html (November/December 2000)

    A Four-Letter Word Called "Race"
    by Dr. C. Loring Brace (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/brace.html (October/November 2000)

    Genome project proves there's just one race, expert says
    by Bill Snyder (The Tennessean)
    http://www.tennessean.com/local/00506350.shtml?Element_ID=506350 (October 27, 2000)

    America's Worst Idea
    By Orlando Patterson (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/22/reviews/001022.22pattert.html (October 22, 2000)

    A Question of Race
    by Willow Lawson (ABCNEWS.com)
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/race_kennewick001006.html (October 6, 2000)

    Free Will (or The Right To Not Decide)
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/landrith.html (October/November 2000)

    "I don't want to know"
    by Jennifer Ben-Khaffed (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/ben-khaffed.html (October/November 2000)

    Race: Is It A Valid Issue?
    by Jonathan Morrow (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/morrow.html (October/November 2000)

    The Key to Race: Depoliticize It
    by Sheldon Richman (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/richman2.html (October/November 2000)

    Longing For Life Outside of the Box
    by Beverly Yuen Thompson (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/thompson.html (October/November 2000)

    The Political Realignment: A Jihad against "Race"-consciousness
    by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.webcom.com/intvoice/jihad.html (September/October 2000)

    Eliminate "Race" -- Rebuttal to Steve Sailor Essays
    by George Winkel (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://interracialvoice.com/gwinkel7.html (September/October 2000)

    Do Races Differ? Not Really, DNA Shows
    by Natalie Angier (The New York Times)
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/082200sci-genetics-race.html (August 22, 2000)

    In U.S., you can't just be a swimmer who is black
    by Gwenn Knapp (The San Francisco Examiner)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/08/16/SPORTS6407.dtl (August 16, 2000)

    Books & Culture Corner: In Praise of Miscegenation
    by John Wilson (ChristianityToday.com)
    http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/133/13.0.html (August 14, 2000)

    "I'm all for the human race"
    by Jeremy Lott (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/jeremylott.html (August/September 2000)

    We're All Cherry Cupcakes
    by Kathleen Fuller (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/fuller.html (August/September 2000)

    Diversity, Not Divisiveness
    by Kathleen Fuller (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/fuller2.html (August/September 2000)

    Humans Must Reject Genetic Determinism in the New Millenium
    by Marc Levin and Edward Blum (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/blum-levin.html (August/September 2000)

    Americans Are Tired of Racial Boxes
    by M. Royce Van Tassell (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/vantassell.html (August/September 2000)

    The Death of the One-Drop Rule: R.I.P.
    by M. Royce Van Tassell (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/vantassell2.html (August/September 2000)

    Biracial Parents Defy Check Boxes
    by D'Vera Cohn (The Washington Post)
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54696-2000Jul16.html (July 17, 2000)

    Online Chat with The Multiracial Activist
    (IRC Politics)
    http://www.ircpolitics.org/MultiRacialActivistTxt.html (July 7, 2000)

    Tiger Wood's reflects nation's diverse, multiracial future
    by Geneva Overholser (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
    http://www.pioneerplanet.com/opinion/ocl_docs/016030.htm (June 26, 2000)

    21 Arguments for Abolishing Racial Classification
    by Yehudi O. Webster (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/webster2.html (June/July 2000)

    One Drop Too Many
    by Ron Bronson, Jr. (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/bronson.html (June/July 2000)

    A Nation of Minorities?
    by Amitai Etzioni (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/etzioni.html (June/July 2000)

    I Don't Want to be Black Anymore
    by J.J. Johnson (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/johnson.html (June/July 2000)

    Do You Feel Like a Number Yet?
    by J.J. Johnson (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/johnson2.html (June/July 2000)

    Racing Toward Wholeness
    by Reverend Douglas A. Taylor (Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church)
    http://www.cedarlane.org/00serms/s000618.html (June 18, 2000)

    Not Black or White: Multiracial Identities Gaining Favor
    by Amy Collins (ABCNews.com)
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/multiethnic000509.html (May 9, 2000)

    Race: Anthropologists say divisions were made by man
    by Walter Lee Dozier (The Gazette)
    http://www.gazette.net/200018/frederickcty/state/10106-1.html (May 4, 2000)

    Not Black or White: Multiracial Identities Gaining Favor
    by Amy Collins (ABC News )
    http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dailynews/multiethnic000504.html (May 4, 2000)

    The Human Family Tree: 10 Adams and 18 Eves
    by Nicholas Wade (The New York Times)
    http://www10.nytimes.com/library/national/science/050200sci-genetics-evolution.html (May 2, 2000)

    Sociologist Calls For End of Term "Minority"
    by E.V. Aniles (Frontera Magazine)
    http://www.latino.com/ent-music/0424fron3.php3 (April 24, 2000)

    The 'race' question on the U.S. census is racist
    by Bob Curtis (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/curtis.html (April/May 2000)

    The Census' Race Problem
    by Dawn Stover (The New York Times)
    http://www10.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/19stov.html (April 19, 2000)

    One Drop-Still: A racialist's Census
    by Stephan Thernstrom (National Review)
    http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_national_review-one_drop-stil.htm (April 17, 2000)

    "Race" In The Third Millenium
    by George Winkel (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/winkel2.html (April/May 2000)

    An Alternative to Race Relations: Human Relations
    by Yehudi O. Webster (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/webster.html (April/May 2000)

    Count Me Out
    by Sheldon Richman (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/richman.html (April/May 2000)

    Census 2000: Just Say No To Race
    by James K. Mattis (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/mattis.html (April/May 2000)

    What Makes Us Americans?
    by Sam Hazo (The Abolitionist Examiner)
    http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/word/hazo.html (April/May 2000)

    Ward Connerly Inducted Into The Racial Harmony Hall of Fame
    (The Egalitarian)
    http://www.acri.org/newsletter/eg0400.pdf (April 2000)

    Racial Identity on the US Census Forms
    (C-SPAN)
    http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/ldrive/e033100_census.rm (March 31, 2000)

    Racial Identity on the US Census Forms
    (C-SPAN)
    http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=149640122 (March 31, 2000)

    Census' Ethnic Emphasis Outrageous
    by Tamar Jacoby (Newsday)
    http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_newsday-census_ethnic_emphasi.htm (March 30, 2000)

    Paul Introduces Bill to Limit Census
    (Office of Representative Ron Paul)
    http://www.multiracial.com/government/pr20000328.html (March 28, 2000)

    Talking Equal
    by Ward Connerly (Frontpage Magazine)
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/archives/racerelations/connerly03-29-00.htm (March 29, 2000)

    U.S. Census Cultivates Fiction of Race
    by Courtland Milloy (The Washington Post)
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38133-2000Mar18.html (March 19, 2000)

    Bachus Introducing Plan to Protect Privacy of Loan Applicants
    (Office of Representative Spencer Bachus)
    http://www.multiracial.com/government/pr20000307.html (March 7, 2000)

    I Don't Want to be Black Anymore
    by J.J. Johnson (The Sierra Times)
    http://SierraTimes.com/archive/jj/edjj022800.htm (February 28, 2000)

    Humans Must Reject Genetic Determinism in the New Millenium
    by Marc Levin and Edward Blum (The Salt Lake Tribune)
    http://www.sltrib.com/2000/feb/02062000/commenta/23559.htm (February 6, 2000)

    Race Query Affects Tests, Regents Told
    by Kenneth R. Weiss (Los Angeles Times)
    http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000121/t000006720.html (January 21, 2000)

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Message - Move Beyond Racialism
    by Gregory Stephens (Pacific News Service)
    http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2000/jan/0113king.html (January 13, 2000)

    Race Over
    by Orlando Patterson (The New Republic)
    http://www.tnr.com/magazines/tnr/011000/trb011000.html (January 10, 2000)

    Interview With Gregory Stephens: On Racial Frontiers
    by Laura Gardner(Jahworks.org)
    http://www.jahworks.org/music/book_reviews/racial_front.html (January 2000)

    2000 Census eases rules on racial choice
    by Jeff Claassen (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
    http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:METRO12/1:METRO12120599.html (December 5, 1999)

    Guest Commentary: What Makes Us Americans?
    by Sam Hazo (The Multiracial Activist)
    http://www.multiracial.com/readers/hazo.html (December 1, 1999)

    TMA & IV Comment Letter on Equal Credit Opportunity Act 64 FR 44582 (August 16, 1999) Docket No. R-100
    by James A. Landrith, Jr. and Charles Michael Byrd (The Multiracial Activist/INTERRACIAL VOICE)
    http://www.multiracial.com/letters/regulationb.html (November 10, 1999)

    Libertarians endorse movement to end affirmative action
    by Stella M. Chavez (Sun Sentinel)
    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,24500000000113244,00.html (October 10, 1999)

    The Definition of Self
    by Kimberly Hohman (About.com)
    http://racerelations.about.com/library/weekly/aa082499.htm (August 24, 1999)

    One, two many races
    by Jeff Jacoby (Jewish World Review)
    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jacoby081299.asp (August 12, 1999)

    Readers Write: Counting Americans by race
    (Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/08/06/p10s3.htm (August 6, 1999)

    'Race' is a crude category at best
    by Laurent Belsie (Christian Science Monitor)
    http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/07/28/p4s2.htm (July 28, 1999)

    Don't Drag Our Kids Into Your Racial Politics
    by Deb Brown (INTERracialFamily.com)
    http://www.interracialfamily.com/cgi-bin/newsdesk/news/newsdesk.cgi?a=17&t=template.html (June 26, 1999)

    Affirmative Action Foes Cheer Gains
    by V. Dion Haynes (The Chicago Tribune)
    http://chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-9811230189,00.html (November 23, 1998)

    We're All The Same
    by Lee Dye (ABC News)
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DyeHard/dye72.html (September 16, 1998)

    'One-Drop Rule' Still Haunts Us: Godby vs. Board of Education
    by Major Cox (Montgomery Advertiser)
    http://www.majorcox.com/columns/onedrop.htm (April 22, 1998)

    Is There Life After Race?
    by Kanchan Limaye (Reason Magazine)
    http://www.reasonmag.com/9802/bk.limaye.html (February 1998)

    End Drawing Near for Race Categories
    by Major Cox (Montgomery Advertiser)
    http://www.majorcox.com/columns/racecat9.htm (January 22, 1998)

    America doesn't need racial labels
    by Cal Thomas (The Holland Sentinel)
    http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/120997/opn_racial.html (December 9, 1997)

    Discussions About Race Occurring
    by Major Cox (Montgomery Advertiser)
    http://www.majorcox.com/columns/whitene2.htm (November 19, 1997)

    If race shouldn't count, then why count it?
    by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe)
    http://interracialvoice.com/bos_glob.html (November 18, 1997)

    Racial categories shouldn't be issue
    (The Jacksonville Daily News)
    http://interracialvoice.com/jacksonv.html (November 10, 1997)

    Racial politics and the next census
    (The Tampa Tribune)
    http://interracialvoice.com/tampa.html (November 6, 1997)

    Stop Asking About Race in Census
    by Major Cox (Montgomery Advertiser)
    http://www.majorcox.com/columns/will1.htm (October 15, 1997)

    Melding In America
    by George F. Will (The Washington Post)

    http://interracialvoice.com/g_will.html (October 5, 1997)

    Let's Get Rid of the Silly Little Boxes
    by Ben J. Wattenburg (The American Enterprise Institute)

    http://www.aei.org/oti/oti7920.htm (August 1997)

    Defining Americans
    (The Detroit News)
    http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9707/13/2edit/2edit.htm (July 13, 1997)

    It's time to break out of our old racial boxes
    (The Seattle Times)

    http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/browse/html97/raceed_071197.html (July 11, 1997)

    Is America Finally Going Color-Blind?
    by James K. Glassman (The American Enterprise Institute)

    http://www.aei.org/oti/oti7782.htm (June 1997)

    cablinasian like me
    by Gary Kamiya (Salon Magazine)

    http://www.salonmagazine.com/april97/tiger970430.html (April 30, 1997)

    Celebrate Personal Achievement, Not 'Race' Achievement
    by Anthony Givhan (AFRONET)

    http://www.afronet.com/WB/043097-3.html (April 30, 1997)

    Tiger's Comments Stir Up Racial-Designation Debate
    by Oralander Brand-Williams (The Detroit News)

    http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9704/25/04250103.htm (April 25, 1997)

    Groups with special interests insist on cluttering things up in simpler Census
    by Pete Waldmeir (The Detroit News)
    http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9704/07/04070092.htm (April 7, 1997)

    The one-drop-of-blood rule
    by Dinesh D'Souza (Forbes)

    http://www.forbes.com/forbes/120296/5813048a.htm (December 2, 1996)

    A Vested Interest In Maintaining Jim Crowism
    by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)

    http://interracialvoice.com/editor8.html (November/December 1996)

    The Medicalization of Race: Scientific Legitimization of a Flawed Social Construct
    by Ritchie Witzig (Annals of Internal Medicine)
    http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15oct96/medrace.htm (October 15, 1996)

    Close-up: Scientists reject the traditional notion of races
    by Robert S. Boyd (The Seattle Times)

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/extra/browse/html/altgene_100996.html (October 9, 1996)

    Many American Dilemmas: The statistical politics of counting by race and ethnicity
    by Peter Skerry (The Brookings Review)

    http://www.brookings.org/pub/review/skersu96.htm (Summer 1996 Vol. 14 No. 3)

    Biracial people symbolize future of race
    by Clarence Page (The Detroit News)

    http://detnews.com/menu/stories/34007.htm (January 31, 1996)

    About Race: The Census' One-Drop Rule
    by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)

    http://interracialvoice.com/editor2.html (September/October 1995)


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