Filed by KOSU News in US News.
November 8, 2009

The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial, a number that’s expected to shoot up in the 2010 count. As more of the nation’s population identifies itself as of mixed race, the authors of a new book say Americans’ ideas of racial identity are in for a challenge. Copyright 2009 National Public Radio