{"id":13138,"date":"2011-04-06T21:56:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T21:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2011-04-07T04:10:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T04:10:17","slug":"census-data-suggests-increased-acceptance-of-being-multiracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13138","title":{"rendered":"Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytexanonline.com\/content\/census-data-suggests-increased-acceptance-being-multiracial\" target=\"_blank\">Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytexanonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Texan<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Texas, Austin<br \/>\n2011-04-01<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shamoyita DasGupta<\/strong>, Daily Texan Staff<\/p>\n<p>More Americans than ever before identify as multiracial, according to the 2010 census.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOf the 9 million people who listed themselves as more than one race, 4.2 million are children. The percentage rose from 2.4 percent to 2.9 percent in the last 10 years.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/news\/releases\/operations\/cb11-cn37.html\" target=\"_blank\">the number increased from 514,633 in 2000 to 679,001 in 2010<\/a>, with the majority of those people identifying themselves as being white and any other race, said Jenna Arnold, a spokeswoman for the Dallas region of the U.S. Census Bureau.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe significant increase is not particularly surprising to those who study population trends, said sociology professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/sociology\/faculty\/angelrj\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald Angel<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s more intermarriage,\u201d he said. \u201c[Being multiracial] just seems to be more accepted, just from the data.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThose who were more likely to list themselves as being of more than one race tended to be Native Hawaiians, American Indians and Pacific Islanders, while blacks and whites were less likely to report being multiracial, according to <em>The New York Times<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census data suggests increased acceptance of being multiracial The Daily Texan University of Texas, Austin 2011-04-01 Shamoyita DasGupta, Daily Texan Staff More Americans than ever before identify as multiracial, according to the 2010 census. \u00a0 Of the 9 million people who listed themselves as more than one race, 4.2 million are children. The percentage rose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,6,394,20],"tags":[5926,5925,5924,5927,5928],"class_list":["post-13138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jenna-arnold","tag-ronald-angel","tag-ronald-j-angel","tag-shamoyita-dasgupta","tag-the-daily-texan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}