ABSTRACT
Mixed-race matters have gone hand in hand with questions of race itself. In the case of Afro-Americans especially, the willingness to accept singular racial categorization despite a history defined in large part by extensive population mixture is one of the most puzzling and illegitimate aspects of the race concept. On October 30, 1997, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced its decision regarding the way race would thenceforth be conceived of, utilized, and reported by the federal government. However, there is a phenomenon occurring with the potential to challenge America's way of thinking about race, racial categorization, and race mixing. The conflicting ideologies of multiracialism and antiracialism will continue their philosophical struggle regardless of OMB's "mark all that apply" decision, since it satisfies neither of them. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
