The U.S. Census Bureau says improvements to the design of the 2020 census questions and the tabulating of answers led to an ...

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

Overall, 139 of today’s senators and representatives identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American or Native American.

Two sociologists from Princeton University argue that the public was misled by 2020 census' multiracial boom findings.

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

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 ...

A roundup of answers reveals a community grappling with what it means to announce one’s Jewishness today, and to consider the paths that have brought American Jews to the present day. WASHINGTON ...

Still, both race, which describes one’s physical characteristics, and ethnicity, which encompasses ... Yes. In the United States, for example, Asian Americans have often been considered, and ...