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Minute for Mission: Race Relations Sunday; Speak Antiracism

Posted December 13th, 2017

If your mother is white and your father is African-American, what race are you? a. White b. African-American c. Before 1989, African-American d. 1989 or later, white Would it surprise you to learn that the answer is both c and d? For those who live in the United States, the race of a child as listed on a birth certificate has been based on a changing set of rules. If both parents were white, the child was white. Before 1989, if only one parent was white, the child was assigned the race of the nonwhite parent. Since 1989, the race of the infant has been determined by the mother’s race.