According to the U.S. Census, which recorded its most detailed race and ethnicity data in 2020, America has 3.5 million Middle Eastern or North African residents.

The United States had 3.5 million residents who identify as Middle Eastern or North African; Venezuelans were the fastest-growing Hispanic group last decade; ... Census race, ethnicity data detailed.

The United States has been collecting race and ethnicity data since the first census in 1790, but in 1977, it produced a policy that mandates a standard classification of collecting, keeping and ...

First, the Census Bureau's race and ethnic classifications do not overlook the growing mixed-race population in the United States, as Connerly and Gonzalez suggested.

As president, Trump unsuccessfully tried to disqualify people who were in the United States illegally from being included in the 2020 census. Momentum for changing the race and ethnicity ...

Racial categories have been included in the census since 1790, when the United States government ... a series of proposed changes to race and ethnicity categories on the census and other ...

The 2020 Census reported that approximately 74.8% of the rural population is White non-Hispanic, compared to 57.8% for the United States as a whole. Hispanics are the second most prevalent racial or ...

When President Trump was elected, the Census Bureau was in the process of changing the way it tabulates race and ethnicity. Drawing on more than a decade of research and with input from hundreds ...

This article features an interview with historian Lisa Betty. In the interview, Betty explores how race has evolved in the United States, and how the concept of whiteness has shifted over time.

The agency’s focus group research found that some people think the words mean the same thing, while others see race as meaning skin color, ancestry or culture, while origin is the nation or place ...

New census figures that provide a snapshot of America’s foreign-born population are challenging conventional views of immigration, race and ethnicity. What it means to be African-American, for ...

The United States had 3.5 million residents who identify as Middle Eastern or North African; Venezuelans were the fastest-growing Hispanic group last decade; ... Census race, ethnicity data detailed.