April 27, 2007

America's Ideas About Multiracial People

By DAVID GLENN

Kimberly McClain DaCosta, an associate professor of African and African-American studies at Harvard University

In the 2000 U.S. census, nearly seven million Americans took advantage of a new option that allowed them to check more than one box when describing their race. In Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford University Press), Ms. DaCosta describes how activists, bureaucrats, and corporate

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