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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.
The Arab American population was then estimated through the number of responses that included one or more Arab ancestries. The 2020 census changed this by explicitly prompting write-in responses with Arab American examples listed as "Print, for example, German, Irish, English, Italian, Lebanese, Egyptian, etc". [45]
Racial passing is a recurring theme in American artist Adrian Piper's work. For example, in her 1988 visual performance piece Cornered, Piper states "I'm black" and explains that this statement may surprise her audience because Piper, who is a light-skinned African American, could pass as white. [32]
Race and capital punishment in the United States; Race and ethnicity in the United States; Race and ethnicity in the United States census; Race and the war on drugs; Racial and ethnic misclassification in the United States; Racial classification of Indian Americans; Racial disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States; Racial ...
List of Afghan Americans; Lists of African Americans; List of Albanian Americans; List of Amish and their descendants; Ancestral background of vice presidents of the United States; List of Arab and Middle Eastern Americans in the United States Congress; List of Arab Americans; List of Argentine Americans; List of American musicians of Armenian ...
During the American colonial period, British colonial officials conducted censuses in some of the Thirteen Colonies that included enumerations by race. [1] In addition, tax lists and other reports provided additional data and information about the racial demographics of the Thirteen Colonies during this time period.
A typical Latino American family may have members with a wide range of racial phenotypes, meaning a Latino couple may have children who look white and black and/or Native American and/or Asian. [158] Latino Americans have several self-identifications; most Latinos identify as " Some other race ", while others identify as white and/or black 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.