21.   Racial categories are artificial constructs that once described reality, but no longer do so.

22.   Ruth McKay, an anthropologist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, said the racial categories used by the Census Bureau were never meant to be scientific.

23.   Scientists have long suspected that the racial categories recognized by society are not reflected on the genetic level.

24.   She understands why some of her friends would want to go by a multiracial designation but thinks allowing that as a census category will actually perpetuate questionable racial categories.

25.   Such people could be randomly assigned to a racial category.

26.   That love and mutual respect make new parents more reluctant to define their children within the existing rigid racial categories, Funderburg adds.

27.   The dissenting justices, led by Justice John Paul Stevens, argued that there is a difference between benign and malevolent racial categories.

28.   The number of young African Americans who chose to identify themselves in more than one racial category was considered high.

29.   The old method instructed those surveyed to choose one from a handful of racial categories.

30.   Under this, people would be placed in a racial category that corresponds to a combination of races they list.