As a mixed-race person I find your post very interesting. Being mixed race and the place of mixed-race people are things I think about all the time.
You make a lot of good points here. I just wanted to say something about forms. I am 39 years old and I live in California. Growing up I had that dilemma about filling out forms, but as an adult (and the mother of mixed-race children) I find that all the forms have the option of checking more than one box for race. From school forms to health-care forms, they all have a way to express being mixed race.
There are a lot of mixed-race people in California. For the last 20 years in the county where I was born, Sacramento County, 1 in 5 babies are born to parents of different races. Other parts of the country are different. I lived on the east coast for 15 years and during that time most people could not immediately identify me as mixed race on sight. In California a lot of people know, just by looking at me, that I am mixed white and Asian.
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You make a lot of good points here. I just wanted to say something about forms. I am 39 years old and I live in California. Growing up I had that dilemma about filling out forms, but as an adult (and the mother of mixed-race children) I find that all the forms have the option of checking more than one box for race. From school forms to health-care forms, they all have a way to express being mixed race.
There are a lot of mixed-race people in California. For the last 20 years in the county where I was born, Sacramento County, 1 in 5 babies are born to parents of different races. Other parts of the country are different. I lived on the east coast for 15 years and during that time most people could not immediately identify me as mixed race on sight. In California a lot of people know, just by looking at me, that I am mixed white and Asian.