---
title: "Are African Americans Still a Single Race?"
description: "That's the percentage of  African Americans who now say that blacks can no longer be thought of as a single race. "
date: "2008-03-17"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/03/17/are-african-americans-still-a-single-race/"
---

# Are African Americans Still a Single Race?

Nearly four-in-ten African Americans (37%) say that blacks can no longer be thought of as a single race in a recent Pew survey. Just a bare majority of blacks — 53% — say it is still appropriate to think of blacks as single race.[Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/634/black-public-opinion)