{"id":24976,"date":"2011-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2011\/04\/06\/multirace-and-the-2010-census\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:51:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:51:53","slug":"multirace-and-the-2010-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2011\/04\/06\/multirace-and-the-2010-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Race and the 2010 Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When final national race counts from the 2010 Census were released last month, they included more than nine million Americans who self-identified as belonging to two or more race groups. One of them was not President Barack Obama, child of a white mother and black father, who said last year that he described himself on his census form as &#8220;black.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As columnist Gregory Rodriguez recently pointed out, the number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-rodriguez-column-obama-race-20110404,0,3716973.column\">Americans who checked both &#8220;black&#8221; and &#8220;white&#8221;<\/a> on their census forms grew by 134% from 2000 to 2010. (Among non-Hispanics, about 1.6 million reported being both black and white, but not any other race; among Hispanics, about 654,000 did so.) Rodriguez lamented the president&#8217;s decision not to include himself in more than one racial category.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The perception of Obama&#8217;s racial identity is quite different among black and white Americans. 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