ABSTRACT
Standing on the threshold or a new millennium, Americans, had they thought about it, might have considered whether to at last shed the nineteenth-century constructions of race that so characterize their society, as opposed to carrying the fallacies along into the twenty-first century. The congressional hearings in 1993 and 1997 on whether to change the federal race categories demonstrated a singular focus on the past and the present, with no view toward the future. Yet multiracial ideology clearly requires the explicit acknowledgement of biological race in order to arrive at the alleged existence of multiracial individuals. A federal multiracial category would create yet another non-white race in America, thereby doing nothing to alter the present axis of America's oppressive racial hierarchy. The multiracial idea can be an effective reductio ad absurdum argument against the notion of race, since it demonstrates the absurdity of fixed and exclusive racial categories.
