Why do Latinos, Arabs, Native Americans and other ethnicities identify more with Black Americans than White Americans?

For millions of Americans, issues of racial and ethnic identification are ... began allowing for individuals to self-identify as more than one race on its survey forms. ... predominantly white with some Native American ancestry, is just the latest ... . Keywords: race, ethnicity, self-identity, African-American, Latino, ...

The racial and ethnic makeup of the American people is in flux. ... In general, people do not change their ethnicities as a matter of fashion, but they may ... A person of mixed heritage might be Native American in one context, but white in another. ... . Unlike whites and blacks, Asians and Latinos are also more likely to report ... .

Experience shows, moreover, that reductions in poverty do not reliably reduce racial ... Low-income blacks were 3.8 times more likely than poor whites to live in ... In addition to identifying barriers facing African Americans and Latinos, this ... Unlike other racial and ethnic groups, most Native Americans are ... ..

Despite these and other points of overlap, it is helpful to discuss racial ... than a White, and 2.5 times more likely to search a stopped African American or Hispanic.²² ... While African Americans were twice as likely as Whites to be stopped and ... and Native American drivers were all stopped and searched more often than ...

In sum, Federal data sets identifying race and ethnicity are a mixture of self- identification ... For American Indians and Alaskan Natives, reporting is less consistent (63 percent ... Many people of more than one race, who under Directive No. ... .. Some Hispanic respondents do not identify with the Black or the White category, ... ..