Our rising white-black multiracial populationPosted in Articles, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, United States on 2015-02-27 02:07Z by Steven |
Our rising white-black multiracial population
The Avenue / Rethinking Metropolitan America
The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
2015-02-23
William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
The fastest growing racial group in the country is those who identify themselves as “two or more” races. Yet, perhaps most encouraging, as discussed in my book Diversity Explosion, is the rise in the population that identifies itself as both white and black. The racial divide in the United States has been so stark that it was not until the 2000 Census that federal statistics allowed multiracial status. For a long period in our history, persons were identified as black according to the “one drop” rule which stipulated that if they had any black ancestors, they could not be classified as white…
Recently, a clear sign of the softening of racial boundaries was the 2010 Census report that persons identifying as black and white were the largest biracial population at 1.8 million—more than double those identified in the previous census…
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