Multiracial in America
Multiracial Americans are at the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the U.S.
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Chapter 1: Race and Multiracial Americans in the U.S. Census
Every U.S. census since the first one in 1790 has included questions about racial identity. But the ways in which race is asked about and classified have changed from census to census.
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Composition of Multiracial Americans
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Multiracial Babies on the Rise
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Appendix B: Explanation of Ancestry Analysis
We use information on respondent ancestry reported in the 1980-2000 decennial censuses and the 2010-2012 American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate the proportion of the population with two significantly different racial ancestries. The ancestry question is an open-ended question that allows respondents to report up to two ancestries. The three-year 2010-2012 ACS was used, rather […]
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In the news industry, diversity is lowest at smaller outlets
Minorities are still underrepresented at U.S. news organizations, especially when it comes to the places that would-be journalists traditionally try to break into the business: smaller local TV and newspaper outlets.
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Appendix A: Methodology
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) was developed in 1995 by Anthony G. Greenwald of the University of Washington and Mahzarin R. Banaji, now at Harvard University. The test is designed to measure unconscious or implicit preferences of individuals. In the case of race, the goal of the IAT is to measure preference for one race […]
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About This Report
This report, produced by Pew Research Center, examines the attitudes, experiences and demographic characteristics of multiracial Americans. The findings are based on data from two primary sources: A nationally representative survey of 1,555 multiracial Americans ages 18 and older, conducted online from Feb. 6 to April 6, 2015, and Pew Research analyses of data collected […]
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American Indian and white, but not ‘multiracial’
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Exploring Racial Bias Among Biracial and Single-Race Adults: The IAT
To overcome the obstacles of measuring racial attitudes, Pew Research Center conducted an Implicit Association Test (IAT), a technique that psychologists say measures subconscious or “hidden” bias by tracking how quickly individuals associate good and bad words with specific racial groups.
