"Recently, the call to go “beyond Black and White” in discussions of race has become something of a mantra in scholarly circles. The conventional trope of “two nations, Black and White”—crafted and reproduced over the past half-century by Gunnar Myrdal, the Kerner Commission, Andrew Hacker, and others—seems increasingly outdated as unprecedented levels of Asian and Latin American immigration continue to diversify the U.S. population. While the multi-racial composition of the American populace has always given the lie to a bipolar racial framework, these post-1965 demographic changes have thrown the frame-work’s shortcomings into especially bold relief. But what does it mean to go “beyond Black and White” in thinking about race? As with most ritualistic exhortations, the need to do something is more apparent than how it is to be done."