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reportMay 14, 2021

Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults

About half of Americans see their identity reflected very well in the census’s race and ethnicity questions.
short readsFeb 19, 2021

Three-quarters of Black Americans say Black churches have helped promote racial equality

Majorities of Black adults say predominantly Black churches have done at least some to help Black Americans.
reportJul 8, 2021

Methodology

This study is based on an analysis of 12,832 sermons, homilies or worship services delivered between Aug. 31 and Nov. 8, 2020, and collected from the websites of 2,146 churches found via the Google Places application programming interface (API), a tool that provides information about establishments, geographic locations or points of interest listed on Google […]
short readsAug 8, 2022

Why Pew Research Center typically can’t report the views of smaller U.S. religious groups

While the largest Christian traditions and religious “nones” can be consistently analyzed, smaller groups produce a large margin of error.
short readsMar 24, 2021

Three-quarters of Black Americans believe in God of the Bible or other holy scripture

Nearly all Black Americans believe in God or a higher power. But what type of God do they have in mind?
reportJan 20, 2022

3. A growing share of Black immigrants have a college degree or higher

Overall, Black immigrants earn college degrees at a similar rate to U.S. immigrants overall. Indeed, 31% of Black immigrants ages 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher – slightly lower (33%) than the share of the immigrant population in the U.S. with a college degree. The share of Black immigrants with at least […]
reportJan 20, 2022

2. Over half of Black immigrants arrived in U.S. after 2000

Almost six-in-ten Black foreign-born people living in the United States (58%) immigrated to the U.S. in 2000 or later, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the 2019 American Community Survey. Roughly three-in-ten (31%) immigrated to the U.S. between 2010 and 2019, and a little over a quarter (27%) immigrated to the country from […]
reportJan 20, 2022

One-in-Ten Black People Living in the U.S. Are Immigrants

Immigrants – particularly those from African nations – are a growing share of the U.S. Black population.
short readsFeb 16, 2021

10 new findings about faith among Black Americans

Black American religious life is diverse, encompassing a wide range of religious affiliations, worship practices and beliefs.
reportAug 23, 2022

Sidebar: Laws, norms and traditions

Laws and cultural norms tied to inheritance and marriage may help explain differences in attitudes toward sons, daughters and abortion. This sidebar offers a very elementary glance at Indian laws, norms and traditions that might be tied to sex selection. Inheritance: Inheritance traditions are among the barriers that Indian women face, even though laws in […]

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Search results for: “african americans”

Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults

Three-quarters of Black Americans say Black churches have helped promote racial equality

Methodology

Why Pew Research Center typically can’t report the views of smaller U.S. religious groups

Three-quarters of Black Americans believe in God of the Bible or other holy scripture

3. A growing share of Black immigrants have a college degree or higher

2. Over half of Black immigrants arrived in U.S. after 2000

One-in-Ten Black People Living in the U.S. Are Immigrants

10 new findings about faith among Black Americans

Sidebar: Laws, norms and traditions