Latest Breaking News

we argue that the reclassifications have been misconceived:
first, because they have confounded identity with ancestry, and, second, because
they have mistakenly equated national origin with race. Identity and origins are
not the same; people may write in an “origin,” perhaps a distant ancestry, even a
minute one according to a DNA test, which is not part of their identity (Roth and
Ivemark 2018; Waters 1990). “Origins” may be understood as ancestry in national
as well as racial or ethnic terms, but a national origin does not necessarily indicate a
race. Not everyone with origins in South Africa is black; not everyone with origins
in France is white. Multiple origins do not necessarily multiply racial identities
or indicate that people think of themselves, much less are regarded by others, as
mixed race.