---
"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://alpha.pewresearch.org/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://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pubs/634/black-public-opinion)