Pew: Multiracial Americans Now Make Up 7% Of Population |
Pew: Multiracial Americans Now Make Up 7% Of Population
Wisconsin Public Radio
Thursday, 2015-06-11, 16:35 CDT
Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Stanford University
Jennifer Sims, Adjunct Visiting Professor of Sociology
University of Wisconsin, River Falls
According to Census data, only about 2 percent of Americans consider themselves to be multiracial, but a new report out Thursday from Pew suggests that the real number of people with multiracial backgrounds is more than three times that. It also shows that the number of people who identify as…
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