In an increasingly diverse society with high rates of intergroup marriage, the American system of racial classification is getting even more arbitrary and absurd. With rising ethno-nationalism threatening democracy around the world, it's also dangerous. David E. Bernstein argues that the time has come to consider abolishing official racial classification and replace it with the separation of race and state.
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