{"id":41356,"date":"2015-06-11T22:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T22:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41356"},"modified":"2015-08-24T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T18:21:27","slug":"multiracial-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41356","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiracial in America<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Pew Research Center<\/a>
\nWashington, D.C.
\n2015-06-11
\n155 pages<\/p>\n

Principal Researchers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kim Parker, Director of Social Trends Research
\nRich Morin, Senior Editor
\nJuliana Menasce Horowitz, Associate Director, Research
\nMark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research<\/p>\n

Research Team<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Brown, Research Assistant
\nD\u2019Vera Cohn, Senior Writer
\nRichard Fry, Senior Researcher
\nAna Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate
\nSara Goo, Senior Digital Editor
\nScott Keeter, Director of Survey Research
\nJens Manuel Krogstad, Writer\/Editor
\nGretchen Livingston, Senion Researcher
\nKyley McGeeney, Research Methodologist
\nAndrew Mercer, Research Methodologist
\nEileen Patten, Research Analyst
\nRenee Stepler, Research Assistant
\nWendy Wang, Senior Researcher<\/p>\n

Proud, Diverse and Growing in Numbers<\/em><\/p>\n

Multiracial Americans are at the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the U.S.\u2014young, proud, tolerant and growing at a rate three times as fast as the population as a whole.<\/p>\n

As America becomes more racially diverse and social taboos against interracial marriage fade, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that majorities of multiracial adults are proud of their mixed-race background (60%)<\/a> and feel their racial heritage has made them more open to other cultures (59%)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the same time, a majority (55%) say they have been subjected to racial slurs or jokes, and about one-in-four (24%) have felt annoyed because people have made assumptions about their racial background. Still, few see their multiracial background as a liability. In fact, only 4% say having a mixed racial background has been a disadvantage in their life. About one-in-five (19%) say it has been an advantage, and 76% say it has made no difference…<\/p>\n