The 276% increase largely happened because of a change in how people were classified by the U.S. Census Bureau rather than ...

The 2030 U.S. Census will include new race and ethnicity checkboxes for Hispanic people and people of Middle Eastern and North African descent, the Office of Management and Budget announced ...

Last March, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget approved changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions ...

Roughly two millennia later, the United States government will ... the OMB combine the separate race and ethnicity categories into one question for the 2000 Census, and eliminate 'race' as a ...

Questions about race and ethnicity that previously were asked separately on forms will now be combined into a single question. That will give respondents the option to pick multiple categories at the ...

As the U.S. Census Bureau gets public feedback about how it should tally people into new race and ethnicity groups, the agency has released new research reflecting how U.S. residents from ...

(Photo by Stephanie Keith | Getty Images) The U.S. Census Bureau and a growing number of states are starting to gather more detailed information about Americans’ race and ethnicity, a change ...

At the genetic level, any two people are more than 99 percent the same as each other, no matter their skin color or ethnic origin. Still, both race ... In the United States, for example, Asian ...

Now Mahdesian and others of mixed race may gain a ... of mixed-race people in the United States. Between 1960 and 1990, the number of interracial married couples ballooned from 150,000 to more than ...

This interdisciplinary area of study promotes rigorous academic inquiry into the critical role issues pertaining to race and ethnicity have played in academic, artistic, and political discourses in ...