Multiracial people
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- Work cat.: Racially mixed people in America, 1992.
- Chiong, J. Racial categorization of multiracial children in the schools, 1998.
- LC database, Jan. 15, 1998("mixed race"; "bi-racial")
- Domino [VR] : interracial people and the search for identity, c1995.
- Wikipedia, Jan. 12, 2012:Interracial (Interracial is an adjective related to a supposed racial group. It can have different connotations in different contexts: Interracial marriage is marriage between two people of different races; Interracial adoption means placing a child of one racial group or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial group or ethnic group; Multiracial (similar to biracial or mixed-racial group) is an adjective describing people who are more than a single racial group.) Multiracial (The terms multiracial and mixed-race describe people whose ancestries come from multiple races. Unlike the term biracial, which often is only used to refer to having parents or grandparents of two different races, the term multiracial may encompass biracial people but can also include people with more than two races in their heritage, or also may refer to the origin of more generationally distant genetic admixtures of more than one race in a person's DNA.)
- ERIC thesaurus, viewed online Jan. 12, 2012(Multiracial Persons. Used For: Biracial Persons; Interracial Offspring; Mixed Race Persons; Mulattoes; Racially Mixed Persons)
- OCLC search, July 27, 2022("racially mixed" 12,774 results; "mixed race" 13,051 results; "multiracial" 18,414 results)
- Google search, July 27, 2022("racially mixed" 1,070,000 results; "mixed race" 21,900,000 results; "multiracial" 33,300,000 results)
- Multiracial, via Merriam-Webster dictionary online, viewed July 27, 2022("composed of, involving, or representing various races"; "having parents or ancestors of different races")
- Race and racism in the United States : an encyclopedia of the American mosaic, 2014:p. 821 ("Multiracial identity: Multiracial identity refers to the identities of individuals who are from two or more racial heritages")
- Google books ngram viewer, viewed Oct. 17, 2022(English-language results from 1800-2019 for multiracial, mixed race, biracial and racially mixed; from the 1940s onward, multiracial rises in usage until by 2019 it is used more than twice as often as the next most common term (biracial); racially mixed peaks in 2000 and then declines in usage, is less commonly used than multiracial from 1949 onward)
- GSSO - the gender, sex, and sexual orientation ontology, viewed Sept. 28, 2022(multiracial person; BT person; SN A person who has multiple racial and/or ethnic backgrounds)
- Project race, viewed Sept. 28, 2022Mission ("Project RACE advocates for multiracial children, multiracial adults, and their families primarily through multiracial education and community awareness")
Wikipedia description:
The term multiracial people refers to people who are of two or more races, while the term multi-ethnic people refers to people who are of more than one ethnicity. A variety of terms are or have been used for multiracial or multi-ethnic people in a variety of contexts, including multiethnic, polyethnic, bi-ethnic (occasion), biracial, mixed-race, and more specific terms. A number of older terms are now considered offensive, such as half-breed and half-caste, in addition to those that were initially coined for pejorative use. Individuals of multiracial backgrounds make up a significant portion of the population in many parts of the world. In North America, studies have found that the multiracial population is continuing to grow. In many countries of Central and South America, mestizos make up the majority of the population (Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia...) and in some others also mulattoes. In the Caribbean, multiracial people officially make up the majority of the population in the Dominican Republic (73%) and Aruba (68%).
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