Census Data Presents Rise in Multiracial Population of Youths; New York Times, 3/24/11

Susan Saulny, New York Times; Census Data Presents Rise in Multiracial Population of Youths:

"Among American children, the multiracial population has increased almost 50 percent, to 4.2 million, since 2000, making it the fastest growing youth group in the country. The number of people of all ages who identified themselves as both white and black soared by 134 percent since 2000 to 1.8 million people, according to census data released Thursday.

Census 2010 is the first comprehensive accounting of how the multiracial population has changed over 10 years, since statistics were first collected about it in 2000."