{"id":41625,"date":"2011-04-05T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2011\/04\/05\/multi-race-americans-and-the-2010-census\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:50:18","slug":"multi-race-americans-and-the-2010-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2011\/04\/05\/multi-race-americans-and-the-2010-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Race Americans and the 2010 Census"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2011\/04\/05\/multi-race-americans-and-the-2010-census\/4-7-2011-4-07-20-pm-00001-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e3eaea\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e3eaea;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"429\" height=\"359\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2011\/04\/4-7-2011-4-07-20-PM-00001.png?resize=429,359 429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2011\/04\/4-7-2011-4-07-20-PM-00001.png?w=429\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55402 not-transparent\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When final national race counts from the 2010 Census were released last month, they included more than 9 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 \u201cblack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As columnist Gregory Rodriguez recently pointed out, the number <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/opinionla\/la-oe-rodriguez-column-obama-race-20110404,0,6268376.column\">of Americans who checked both \u201cblack\u201d and \u201cwhite\u201d on their census forms<\/a> 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\u2019s decision not to include himself in more than one racial category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The perception of Obama\u2019s racial identity is quite different among black and white Americans, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2010\/01\/12\/blacks-upbeat-about-black-progress-prospects\/\">Pew Research Center survey on race in late 200<\/a>9 that asked respondents \u201cdo you think of Obama as black or mixed race?\u201d Among non-Hispanic whites, 53% said the president was mixed race, but 55% of non-Hispanic blacks said he was black. 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