{"id":42650,"date":"2015-09-11T01:12:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T01:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42650"},"modified":"2015-09-11T01:12:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T01:12:42","slug":"multiracial-and-proud-meet-the-americans-who-check-more-than-one-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42650","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial and Proud: Meet the Americans Who Check More Than One Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.good.is\/infographics\/multiracial-america\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial and Proud: Meet the Americans Who Check More Than One Box<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.good.is\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Good<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/love_is_dope\" target=\"_blank\">Demetria Irwin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Millennials\" target=\"_blank\">Millennials<\/a> are the largest, most educated, and most <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.good.is\/infographics\/the-changing-american-life-path\" target=\"_blank\">diverse<\/a> generation to date: 58 percent are white, 21 percent are Hispanic, 14 percent are Black, and 6 percent identify as Asian\/Pacific Islander. They\u2019re also the most multiracial. The median age of multiracial Americans is 19, compared with 38 for single-race Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, America\u2019s most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2010\/02\/24\/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">open-minded<\/a> generation isn\u2019t the only one whose racial makeup is in a state of transformation. Since the Census Bureau first started allowing people to check multiple boxes for race in the year 2000, the number of Americans who self-identify as being of two or more races has doubled. America&#8217;s multiracial population is growing at a rate three times faster than the overall population, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41356\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center study<\/a> released this summer. The study also found that 60 percent of multiracial Americans are \u201cproud of their heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/local\/wp\/2015\/06\/11\/pew-multiracial-population-changing-face-of-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">nearly as many<\/a>\u201455 percent\u2014have also admitted to being the subject of racial slurs or jokes. Nearly a quarter have expressed annoyance that people make assumptions about them based on their presumed ethnicity. Human beings are much more complicated than any checklist or survey could capture. What is it really like being multiracial in America today?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.good.is\/infographics\/multiracial-america\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial and Proud: Meet the Americans Who Check More Than One Box The Daily Good 2015-09-10 Demetria Irwin Millennials are the largest, most educated, and most diverse generation to date: 58 percent are white, 21 percent are Hispanic, 14 percent are Black, and 6 percent identify as Asian\/Pacific Islander. They\u2019re also the most multiracial. 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