{"id":8454,"date":"2021-08-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2021-08-15T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:07:22","slug":"news-clip-behind-the-surprising-jump-in-multiracial-americans-several-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/news-clip-behind-the-surprising-jump-in-multiracial-americans-several-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"News Clip: Behind the Surprising Jump in Multiracial Americans, Several Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/sabrina-tavernise\">Sabrina Tavernise<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/tariro-mzezewa\">Tariro Mzezewa<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/giulia-heyward\">Giulia Heyward<\/a><\/strong> writing for The New York Times on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/13\/us\/census-multiracial-identity.html\">Behind the Surprising Jump in Multiracial Americans, Several Theories<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Census Bureau released a surprising finding this week: The number of non-Hispanic Americans who identify as multiracial had jumped by 127 percent over the decade. For people who identified as Hispanic, the increase was even higher.<\/p><p>The spike sent demographers scrambling. Was the reason simply that more multiracial babies were being born? Or that Americans were rethinking their identities? Or had a design change in this year\u2019s census form caused the sudden, unexpected shift?<\/p><p>The answer, it seems, is all of the above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabrina Tavernise,\u00a0Tariro Mzezewa\u00a0and\u00a0Giulia Heyward writing for The New York Times on &#8220;Behind the Surprising Jump in Multiracial Americans, Several Theories&#8220;: The Census Bureau released a surprising finding this week: The number of non-Hispanic Americans&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[141],"tags":[121,126],"class_list":["post-8454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-2cm","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8456,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions\/8456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}