Beginning with the 2000 U.S. Census, respondents could choose to identify themselves as members of more than one race. When certain people identify as multiracial, why does society not see them as such? Past U.S. president Obamahad a white mother and a black father, but he is often called the nation's first black president, while George Zimmerman (shooter of Trayvon Martin, 2012) has awhite father and a Hispanic mother and has been variously described as white, Hispanic, or multiracial in the media. How does society decide whether personsof mixed-race parentage are white, people of color, or both, and is the logic consistent? What factors seem to affect these choices?
What will be an ideal response?
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Who defines a family as "two or more people living together who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption"?
the author of your textbook the U.S. Department of Justice the U.S. Supreme Court the U.S. Census Bureau