Question: Where would a Native American live to not be counted in the census?
Answer: Indian reservations

Question: The Census Bureau had gone from two categories to how many by the 1990s?
Answer: more than a dozen

Question: By 2002, what percent of African Americans had multiracial ancestries?
Answer: over 75%

Question: Why were there more immigrants in the US?
Answer: due to changing historical forces and new immigration laws in the 1960s

Question: How had the Census Bureau changed its collection of data?
Answer: allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity

Question: What is one of the many outcomes of the Census data?
Answer: federal assistance

Question: How many different ethnic categories were listed on the modern census?
Answer: By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census,

Question: Can people self identify as more than one ethnicity on the US census currently?
Answer: The Census Bureau changed its data collection by allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity

Question: About how many African American have multiracial ancestries
Answer: According to the Census Bureau, as of 2002, over 75% of all African Americans had multiracial ancestries.

Question: Do some ethnic groups have concerns about census changes?
Answer: Some ethnic groups are concerned about the potential political and economic effects, as

Question: How is some federal assistance allocated to certain groups?
Answer: federal assistance to historically underserved groups has depended on Census data

Question: Twelve or more categories for race and ethnicity were in the Census by when?
Answer: 1990

Question: When did laws allow for more immigrants?
Answer: in the 1960s

Question: How many African Americans identify as multiracial on the Census of 2002?
Answer: over 75%

Question: What type of federal assistance depends on Census data?
Answer: assistance to historically underserved groups

Question: Americans with African ancestry have always been classified as what race?
Answer: black (historically) or African American

Question: What were slaves and others of African ancestry classified by what term?
Answer: hypodescent

Question: Melungeons are generally classified as white but what are they genetically what other races?
Answer: European and sub-Saharan African ancestry

Question: What did many with European ancetry "marry white" and want to be part of the white society?
Answer: for its social and economic advantages

Question: Which Americans have been historically classified as African American or black?
Answer: Americans with Sub-Saharan African ancestry

Question: What caused lower classification status for African Americans?
Answer: slavery became a racial caste

Question: How did many multiracial Americans attain social and economic advantages?
Answer: Many of majority European ancestry and appearance "married white" and assimilated into white society

Question: What are some historical reasons multiracial Americans have been classified as black?
Answer: slavery, partus sequitur ventrem, one-eighth law, the one-drop rule of 20th-century legislation

Question: What is the group called who are genetically sub Saharan and European but are classified as white?
Answer: Melungeons,

Question: What is Melungeon?
Answer: genetically to be of European and sub-Saharan African ancestry.

Question: What does it mean to have "marred white"?
Answer: assimilated into white society

Question: What were those with Sub-Saharan African ancestory classified as?
Answer: black (historically) or African American

Question: What were slaves and Africans classified by?
Answer: hypodescent

Question: What is the effect of there no longer being a stigma on interracial marriage?
Answer: more people are openly forming interracial unions

Question: What has caused more people of mixed races to the US?
Answer: Diverse immigration

Question: When was there a period of formal racial segregation?
Answer: in the former Confederacy following the Reconstruction Era

Question: Who was elected and was the first multiracial president of the United States?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: Why were Americans allowed to start checking more than one box to identify their race in the Census in 200?
Answer: Because more Americans have insisted on being allowed to acknowledge their mixed racial origins

Question: Who was the first multiracial president elected in the US
Answer: In 2008 Barack Obama was elected as the first multiracial President of the United States

Question: When did the US begin to experience a growing multiracial identity movement?
Answer: Since the 1980s, the United States has had a growing multiracial identity movement

Question: Who are "mestizos"?
Answer: large population of Hispanics identifying as mestizos

Question: When did the US census start to allow residents to mark more than one ethno-racial identity on the census form?
Answer: the 2000 census for the first time allowed residents to check more than one ethno-racial identity and thereby identify as multiracial

Question: What has brought more mixed race people to the US?
Answer: . Diverse immigration has brought more mixed-race people into the United States

Question: What was it once considered socially advantageous to do?
Answer: try to "pass" as white

Question: What is an example of the multiracial identity movement at work?
Answer: Loving Day

Question: What does the first multiracial president identify as?
Answer: African American

Question: When did the census begin allowing multiple boxes to be checked?
Answer: 2000

Question: When was an African American president elected?
Answer: 2008

Question: What were put in place to prevent the mix of races?
Answer: Anti-miscegenation laws

Question: Why did the anti-miscegenation not insure that there was no interracial mixing?
Answer: white men from taking slave women as concubines and having multiracial children with them

Question: Where was there greater numbers of Latinos and Asian residents?
Answer: In California and the western US

Question: When were the laws against marriage between Asians and Europeans lifted?
Answer: 1950s

Question: What races were prohibited from official relationships with whites?
Answer: Latino and Asian residents

Question: When were anti-miscegenation laws passed?
Answer: Anti-miscegenation laws were passed in most states during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries

Question: Were Latino residents also prohibited from marrying whites? 
Answer: were prohibited from official relationships with whites.

Question: Did these laws change behavior of white slaveholders and other powerful white men?
Answer: this did not prevent white slaveholders, their sons, or other powerful white men from taking slave women as concubines

Question: Which region has greater numbers of Latino and Asian residents?
Answer: In California and the western US,

Question: Were there any laws against marriage between whites and Asians in the US?
Answer: White legislators passed laws prohibiting marriage between European and Asian Americans until the 1950s.

Question: In the western US, who were not allowed to have relationships with whites?
Answer: Latino and Asian residents

Question: When did laws stop banning marriage between whites and asians?
Answer: the 1950s

Question: Who were taking slaves as concubines?
Answer: white slaveholders, their sons, or other powerful white men

Question: When did the numbers of free people of color increase dramatically?
Answer: After the American Revolutionary War

Question: How were the laws in New York abolished?
Answer: in programs of gradual emancipation

Question: How long did it take for states like New York to abolish all slave laws?
Answer: more than two decades to be completed

Question: Who in the south were urging their churches to free their slaves in the south?
Answer: Quaker and Methodist preachers