The Multiracial Experience: Racial Boarders as the New Frontier.

These two books are linked by the rapidly growing phenomenon of interracial marriage in the United States. The 1967 Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia that struck down anti-miscegenation laws in sixteen states was a decision, as one of the thirty-four authors in The Multiracial Experience wrote, "that would forever alter the face and fabric of American race relations" (p. 324). One result of that decision is Root's volume by writers of mixed race, who plead not to be pigeonholed by the racial categories and/or the ethnic/ linguistic "Hispanic" category used by the Census Bureau and other government agencies to count by race and/or language background. They want a pigeonhole of their own called "multiracial." While they are quite clear on the question of how they want to be identified in the census, they never address the question of where such categories fit in a larger vision of what John Higham …