Multiracial Americans are Americans who identify themselves as of "two or more races", as well as mono-racial identified Americans of mixed race ancestry. They were numbered at around 9 million, or 2.9% of the population, in the census of 2010. However there is considerable evidence that the real number is far higher. Prior to the mid-20th century many people hid their multiracial heritage. Consequently many Americans today are multi-racial witho...
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Multiracial Americans are Americans who identify themselves as of "two or more races", as well as mono-racial identified Americans of mixed race ancestry. They were numbered at around 9 million, or 2.9% of the population, in the census of 2010. However there is considerable evidence that the real number is far higher. Prior to the mid-20th century many people hid their multiracial heritage. Consequently many Americans today are multi-racial without necessarily knowing it.
Since the 1967 Supreme Court decision that deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, there has been a considerable increase in the number of interracial couples and mixed-race children. Until 1989, children continued to be classified as belonging to the race of the non-white parent, reflecting historical hypodescent laws. Since the 1980s, the United States has had a growing multiracial identity movement. The 2000 census for the first time allowed residents to identify as multiracial by checking more than one...
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