1.   Although marchers uniformly supported the multiracial category, many at the march said the ultimate goal would be to eliminate racial categories altogether.

2.   Another method is to total up each race, including all who identify themselves as wholly or partially in each racial category.

3.   A large percentage of Latinos continued to reject the given racial categories.

4.   A number of those people were of mixed parentage, although officials said many were also Hispanic, which is an ethnic rather than racial category.

5.   After years of debate, the federal government finally has relented, allowing individuals for the first time to check off more than one racial category on such forms.

6.   After years of debate, the federal government has relented, allowing individuals for the first time to check off more than one racial category on such forms.

7.   But a new option that allowed people to pick more than one racial category for the first time gave him pause.

8.   But he also struggles against the notion of studying history only through the lens of racial categories.

9.   For light-skinned Latinos, there is a different reaction to their being placed in a racial category.

10.   For the first time, people can describe themselves as members of one or more of six racial categories.