Race Policy and Multiracial Americans

6. Should all (or some) multiracial Americans benefit from affirmative action programs? -- Introduction -- The roots of affirmative action and the rise of diversity-based affirmative action -- Assets and liabilities of diversity-based affirmative action -- Affirmative action in higher education -- Conclusion and policy suggestions -- 7. Multiracial students and educational policy -- Critical and culturally responsive pedagogy -- Research on the experiences of multiracial students in schools -- Formal and hidden curriculum issues -- Implications for policymakers, researchers, and educators -- 8. Multiracial Americans in college -- Complicating policies: the diversity of students and institutions -- Institutional diversity -- Strategies -- The imperative of language -- The language and policy implications of underrepresentation -- Future issues of policy and practice to consider -- Conclusion -- 9. Multiracial Americans, health patterns, and health policy: assessment and recommendations for ways forward -- Overview of multiracial health: a focus on risk? -- Patterns of multiracial adult health -- Health policy issues in multiracial America -- Health-care inequalities impacting multiracial people -- Conclusions -- 10. Racial identity among multiracial prisoners in the color-blind era -- Methods -- Sample -- Findings -- Conclusion -- 11. Multiraciality and the racial order: the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Multiraciality within the matrix of race -- The good: multiraciality moving racial reconciliation forward -- The bad: multiracial as status quo -- The ugly: reification of the hierarchy and Whiteness -- Moving multiraciality forward -- 12. Multiracial identity and monoracial conflict: toward a new social justice framework -- Research justice: the DataCenter and multiracial, multi-issue policy reform and advocacy.

Race Policy and Multiracial Americans looks at the impact of multiracial people on race policies - where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the USA and how they can be used to promote racial justice. This much-needed book is essential reading for anyone interested in race relations and social justice.

Race Policy and Multiracial Americans is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies - where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans. Using a critical mixed race perspective, it covers such questions as: Which policies aimed at combating racial discrimination should cover multiracial Americans? Should all (or some) multiracial Americans benefit from affirmative action programmes? How can we better understand the education and health needs of multiracial Americans? This much-needed book is essential reading for sociology, political science and public policy students, policy makers, and anyone interested in race relations and social justice

Race Policy and Multiracial Americans looks at the impact of multiracial people on race policies-where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the USA and how they can be used to promote racial justice. This much-needed book is essential reading for anyone interested in race relations and social justice