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Greater Boston reports a rise in multiracial population

Posted by Liam, 24 Nov

As per highlights in a new report from the Boston Foundation, the multiracial population in Greater Boston has more than doubled in the last 10 years. In 2019, one in five babies born across Massachusetts were mixed-race according to the report dubbed “Multiracial in Greater Boston: The Leading Edge of Demographic Change" which focused on the demographics of Boston and the increasing diversity.

This growth in mixed-race individuals can be attributed to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 which lessened immigration barriers as well as the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia that knocked down the ban on interracial marriages which also applied to the 1913 law in Massachusetts which was also prohibited interracial marriages in the state.

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Since there has been an increase in the number of families migrating to the US from Latin America, Asia, and the Caribbean, the number of interracial marriages has been on the rise at 18% in 2019, compared to the 3.4% in 1967 during the ban on racial mixing.

Much as there has been this rise in multiracial individuals, according to the report, most of them admitted to having experienced some form of racial discrimination. Those with some Black ethnicity reported their race was tied to negative experiences such as poor service in hotels and other business premises.

That said though, this report clearly shows where Boston is headed – the multiracial way. According to an associate professor of Africana studies at Stony Brook University who also hails from Boston, he hopes that this new report will help people acknowledge the struggles that mixed individuals face.

With this rise in multiracial and multi-ethnic families, Trevor Mattos, one of the authors on the report and senior research manager at Boston Indicators feels that “at a certain point, thinking about race as a binary, white and non-white, no longer makes sense”, adding that “it’s up to us to work toward greater equity and racial inclusion” and that “this trend does not imply we are an equitably racial society.”

Mattos hopes that we will start seeing our progressively multi-racial society as something to be proud of – something that is “uniquely American”.

4 responses to "Greater Boston reports a rise in multiracial population"

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Serious62 says:

Posted: 11 Mar 22

I think that is fantastic that all people are uniting together, it's how God created us.

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Ruth116 says:

Posted: 01 Feb 22

I have a daughter with a white ex-boyfriend and once had a stupid BW look at her and say, "Why didn't you have a black baby?". My response was calling her out as the bigot that she was. Who says BP can't be/aren't racist? Another time, when my boyfriend and I was at Detroit's Belle Isle beach, 3-4 BMs stared at us as they walked by. Loudly, one of them said, (as if we were out of earshot) "Whenever you see white boys with our women, they always get with those ugly black hos". Talk about putting one's own foot in their mouth! They weren't exactly GQ models themselves, so I don't know who they were to cast aspersions. Even if they were, I think the white ones are better looking! If those beach bums keep it up with their crappy attitudes, they won't get any women at all. Nobody needs their negative dispositions; I sure as sin don't!

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Ijeybeka says:

Posted: 19 Jan 22

Its all about a change in our mind set... Nice Write up!!

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Debbiedark20 says:

Posted: 17 Jan 22

I’ve been facing a lot of challenges here

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