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  2. Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.

  3. Definitions of whiteness in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By 2010, the number of Hispanics identifying as white has increased by a wide margin since the year 2000 on the 2010 US census form, of the over 50 million people who identified as Hispanic and Latino Americans a majority 53% identified as "white", 36.7% identified as "Other" (most of whom are presumed of mixed races such as mestizo or mulatto ...

  4. White Americans - Wikipedia

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    White American culture derived its earliest influences from English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish settlers and is quantitatively the largest proportion of American culture. [101] The overall American culture reflects White American culture. The culture has been developing since long before the United States formed a separate country.

  5. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    Kant published an essay Von den verschiedenen Racen der Menschen "On the diverse races of mankind" in 1775, based on the system proposed by Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, in which he recognized four groups, a "white" European race (Race der Weißen), a "black" Negroid race (Negerrace), a copper-red Kalmyk race (kalmuckishe Race) and an olive ...

  6. Race and ethnicity in the United States census - Wikipedia

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    According to James P. Allen and Eugene Turner from California State University, Northridge, by some calculations in the 2000 census the largest part white biracial population is white/Native American and Alaskan Native, at 7,015,017, followed by white/black at 737,492, then white/Asian at 727,197, and finally white/Native Hawaiian and other ...

  7. Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States

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    White alone 72.41% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) White alone, not Hispanic or Latino 63.75% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Black or African American alone 12.61% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) American Indian and Alaska Native alone 0.95% (percent in the race/percent in the age group)

  8. 'This country isn't just white': A diverse U.S. squad heads ...

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    A new era is dawning for the U.S. women's national soccer team, as the most diverse squad the program has ever produced will pursue an unprecedented third consecutive title when the World Cup ...

  9. Multiracial Americans - Wikipedia

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    white/Native American and Alaskan Native, at 7,015,017, white/black at 737,492, white/Asian at 727,197, and; white/Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander at 125,628. [25] In 2010, 1.6 million Americans checked both "black" and "white" on their census forms, a figure 134% higher than the number a decade earlier. [26]