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Article Evaluation: "Multiracial Americans"

Information I've got from the article:

>Children receiving the identity and status of the mother

>Case between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, 3/4 children that survived to adulthood identified themselves as white

>Except Madison Hemmings

>Challenge for those who are multiracial in an environment full of people who are "whole-race"-- the idea of conflict in ones self discovery

>The use the terms biracial and multiracial sparked in the late 1990's

>The challenge to define "African Americans" and finally concluding that the definition is: anyone who is a descendent of an African slave.

>Barak Obama's presidency shone light to many issues that were about the way people were categorized.

>Those that passed for white/or passed for black, Passing identity- those whose are classified with the subordinate group in society when in fact they are more alined to be with in the "category" of the dominant

There were some information that seemed bit distracting to the main idea of the section/ the overuse of statistics.

Use of the world census and sources from the archives-->reliable.

There are numerous sources that are from news outlets, like New York Times and the Guardian

In the talk section, the discussion was about the lack of images in the article and the use of inelegant variation.