Evolving Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity Battling Entrenched Prejudices

Quite strong NYT article, worth a read... talkes about "generation mix" and the rising number of mixed-race youth and their constructions of identity.
The New York Times > Fashion & Style > Sunday Styles > When You Contain Multitudes: "The assertive attitude, along with this new crop of youth organizations, is fueled in large part by the 2000 census, which for the first time counted people of more than one race. Among the more than seven million people identified as multiracial, 41 percent were younger than 18, the census showed, compared with 26 percent for the overall population. Now, nearly 40 years after the Supreme Court struck down the last of the nation's anti-miscegenation laws, these young people are challenging a society they say is still very much hung up on racial labels."