{"id":13331,"date":"2011-04-18T04:36:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T04:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13331"},"modified":"2011-04-18T04:36:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T04:36:57","slug":"more-minnesotans-say-theyre-multiracial-in-2010-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13331","title":{"rendered":"More Minnesotans say they&#8217;re multiracial in 2010 Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/minnesota\/ci_17860203\" target=\"_blank\">More Minnesotans say they&#8217;re multiracial in 2010 Census<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TwinCities.com: Pioneer Press<\/a><br \/>\n2011-04-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Chin<\/strong> and <strong>MaryJo Webster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s hip to be mixed.<\/p>\n<p>That could be one explanation for <a href=\"http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/news\/releases\/operations\/cb11-cn89.html\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota&#8217;s 51 percent increase over the past decade in the number of people who say they are multiracial<\/a>, substantially higher than the national increase.<\/p>\n<p>According to the recent U.S. census, about 125,000 people in <a href=\"http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/news\/releases\/operations\/cb11-cn89.html\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota<\/a> identified themselves as being of two or more races, up from about 83,000 in the previous census.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of that increase took place in the metro-area suburbs and outstate, where the number of multiracial people jumped more than 75 percent.<\/p>\n<p>About 2.4 percent of Minnesota&#8217;s population is multiracial, about the same as the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>But multiracial people represent a larger part of the state&#8217;s minority population than of the U.S. population. Almost one of six nonwhite people in the state are multiracial, compared with about one in 10 nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>University of Minnesota sociologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.umn.edu\/people\/liebler_c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Liebler<\/a>, an expert in racial identity, said she thinks three things are driving the increase:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More children are from interracial marriages, with parents in those marriages increasingly likely to identify their offspring as multiracial.<\/li>\n<li>Immigration has increased, with people born in another country who have a mixed background more likely to say they come from two or more races.<\/li>\n<li>More people are deciding to label themselves multiracial because they face increasing acceptance and opportunity to make that choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mixed-race people are nothing new. Most American blacks, for example, have some white ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>But throughout much of American history, mixed-race people were forced legally and socially to identify with just one race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/minnesota\/ci_17860203\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Minnesotans say they&#8217;re multiracial in 2010 Census TwinCities.com: Pioneer Press 2011-04-17 Richard Chin and MaryJo Webster Maybe it&#8217;s hip to be mixed. That could be one explanation for Minnesota&#8217;s 51 percent increase over the past decade in the number of people who say they are multiracial, substantially higher than the national increase. 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