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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.
Mixed-race children of white mothers were born free, and many families of free people of color were started in those years. 80 percent of the free African-American families in the Upper South in the censuses of 1790 to 1810 can be traced as descendants of unions between white women and African men in colonial Virginia, not of slave women and ...
This is a list of the 50 U.S. states, the 5 populated U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia by race/ethnicity. It includes a sortable table of population by race /ethnicity. The table excludes Hispanics from the racial categories, assigning them to their own category.
Maye Musk, Elon Musk’s outspoken mother, has sparked backlash with a comment about a reporter’s ethnicity just as election season heats up. The 76-year-old mother called out a New York Times ...
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Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States in percentage of the population. The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2]
An Inderkum High School wrestler lost a tough match at Roseville, but racial slurs he saw in a video the next day hit him harder. Sacramento wrestler was targeted with racist slurs. His mom ...
In her new memoir, "Token Black Girl," author and fashion editor Danielle Prescod shares how growing up in predominately white spaces impacted her identity.