Multiracial American facts for kids
Multiracial Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry.
Contents
- History
- Demographics
- Multiracial American identity
- Native American identity
- Black and African-American identity
- White and European-American identity
- Hispanic and Latino American identity
- Pacific Islander American identity
- Eurasian-American identity
- Afro-Asian-American identity
- In fiction
- Images for kids
History
Early United States history
19th century: American Civil War, emancipation, Reconstruction and Jim Crow
20th century
Demographics
Multiracial American identity
Political history
Multiracial families and identity issues
Native American identity
- See also: Boricua, Chicano, Cherokee, Choctaw, Genetic history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, and Houma people
Native Americans lineage and admixture in Black and African-Americans
- See also: Black Indians in the United States, Black Seminoles, Brass Ankles, Cherokee Freedman, Choctaw Freedmen, Louisiana Creole people, Mardi Gras Indians, We-Sorts, Redbone (ethnicity), and hypodescent
Native Americans lineage and admixture in White and European-Americans
- See also: Boricua, Chicano, Métis in the United States, hyperdescent, and Slavery among Native Americans in the United States
Black and African-American identity
- See also: Atlantic Creole, Brass Ankles, Chesnut Ridge people, Free people of color, High yellow, Hypodescent, Louisiana Creole people, Melungeon, Mulatto, Redbone (ethnicity), and We-Sorts
Admixture
Definition of African-American
White and European-American identity
- See also: Admixture in the United States, Race and genetics, White Hispanic and Latino Americans, Amerasian, and hyperdescent
Racial passing and ambiguity
Hispanic and Latino American identity
Pacific Islander American identity
- See also: Demographics of American Samoa, History of Guam, and Pacific Islander
Eurasian-American identity
Afro-Asian-American identity
In fiction
Images for kids
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Auliʻi Cravalho is of Hawaiian, Irish, Puerto Rican, Portuguese and Chinese descent.
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Keanu Reeves has an English mother and a father of English, Hawaiian, Irish, Portuguese and Chinese descent.
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Charles Mingus was born to a mother of English and Chinese descent and a father of African-American and Swedish descent.
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Barack Obama's mother was of mostly English ancestry and his father was from Kenya.
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Jennifer Beals was born to an Irish-American mother and an African-American father.
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Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California to a Tamil Indian mother and a Afro-Jamaican father.
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Tiger Woods was born to an Asian American mother and African American father.
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Steve Jobs was born to a Syrian father and an American mother of German descent.
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Martin Sheen was born to a Spanish father and an Irish mother.
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Bill John Baker, who is 3.13% Cherokee, was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 2011 to 2019.
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Seminole elder Billy Bowlegs III was also of Muscogee, African-American and Scottish descent through his maternal grandfather Osceola.
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Radmilla Cody is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and of African-American descent.
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Charles Curtis was a Native American, born to a Kaw, Osage, a Potawatomi and French mother and an English, Scots and Welsh father.
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Deb Haaland is from the Laguna Pueblo people and is the first Native American identified Congresswoman to represent New Mexico. Her father is Norwegian-American.
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Maria Tallchief was a member of the Osage Nation and of Ulster-Scots descent.
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Redd Foxx's mother was half Seminole and his father was African-American.
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Jimi Hendrix was born to a Cherokee mother and was part English, African-American, Irish and German.
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Edmonia Lewis was of Mississauga Ojibwe, African-American and Haitian descent.
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Claudia McNeil was born to an Apache mother and an African-American father.
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Rosa Parks was of Cherokee-Creek, African-American and Scots-Irish descent.
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Della Reese was born to a mother of Cherokee descent and an African-American father.
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James Earl Jones has said in interviews that his parents were both of mixed African-American, Irish and Native American ancestry.
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Ben Campbell was born to an Azorian mother and father of Northern Cheyenne, Apache and Pueblo Indian descent.
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Ruth Gordon's ancestor Parthena was an African mistress of Joseph Pendarvis a member of the notable, Native American descended, Landgrave family of South Carolina.
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Rebecca Hall was born to a mother of Sioux, African-American, Scottish and Dutch extraction and an English father.
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Heather Locklear is of Lumbee descent.
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Tia Mowry Her father is of English and Irish ancestry, and her mother is of Afro-Bahamian descent.
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James Brown was of Apache, African-American and Asian descent.
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Muhammad Ali was of English, African-American and Irish descent.
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Whitney Houston was part Native American, African-American and Dutch.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was of Irish and African extraction.
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John Mercer Langston was of English, Native American and African descent.
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Oprah Winfrey is 89% sub-Saharan African, 8% Native American and 3% East Asian.
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Carol Channing was born to a white mother and a half African-American and German father. She passed for white during the height of her career and later publicly acknowledged her mixed race origins.
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Robert Purvis was born to a part Moorish, German Jewish and Sephardic Jewish free woman of color and an English father. He identified as black and worked to serve his community.
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Daniel Hale Williams was of African-American and Scots-Irish ancestry. Although members of his family passed as white, he exclusively served and identified with African-Americans.
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Stacey Dash is the daughter of a Mexican-American mother Linda Dash (née Lopez; d. 2017) and Dennis Dash, an African American.
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Geraldo Rivera is half Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Russian Jew.
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Chita Rivera's father was Puerto Rican, and her mother was of Scottish and Italian descent.
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Rosa Salazar is of Peruvian and French descent.
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[John H. Sununu]] was born to an American father of Palestinian and Lebanese descent and a Salvadoran mother of Lebanese descent.
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According to DNA testing, Eva Longoria's Mexican-American ancestry consists of 70% European, 27% Asian and Indigenous, and 3% African origin.
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Princess Kaʻiulani was of Indigenous Hawaiian and Scots-American descent.
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Queen Emma of Hawaii was of Hawaiian Nobility and Scots-British ancestry.
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Actor Dwayne Johnson's mother is Samoan and his father is Black Nova Scotian.
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Jason Momoa was born to a mother of Native American, Irish and German ancestry and a father of Indigenous Hawaiian ancestry.
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Lou Diamond Phillips is of Cherokee, Hawaiian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and Scotch-Irish American ancestry.
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Olivia Munn father is of German, Irish, and English ancestry, while her mother is from Vietnam.
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Jennifer Tilly is part Native American, Irish, Finnish and Chinese.
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Tia Carrere is part Spanish, Chinese and Filipino.
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Moon Bloodgood is part Irish, Dutch and Korean.
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Sean Lennon is the son of Japanese Yoko Ono and English and Irish descended John Lennon.
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Nicki Minaj is part Afro-Trinidadian and East Indian.
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Ne-Yo is part African-American and Chinese.
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Bobby Scott is of African-American and Filipino (maternal grandfather) descent.