generate questions: After a lengthy period of formal racial segregation in the former Confederacy following the Reconstruction Era, and bans on interracial marriage in various parts of the country, more people are openly forming interracial unions. In addition, social conditions have changed and many multiracial people do not believe it is socially advantageous to try to "pass" as white. Diverse immigration has brought more mixed-race people into the United States, such as the large population of Hispanics identifying as mestizos. Since the 1980s, the United States has had a growing multiracial identity movement (cf. Loving Day). Because more Americans have insisted on being allowed to acknowledge their mixed racial origins, the 2000 census for the first time allowed residents to check more than one ethno-racial identity and thereby identify as multiracial. In 2008 Barack Obama was elected as the first multiracial President of the United States; he acknowledges both sides of his family and identifies as African American.
What is the effect of there no longer being a stigma on interracial marriage? {sep_token} What has caused more people of mixed races to the US? {sep_token} When was there a period of formal racial segregation? {sep_token} Who was elected and was the first multiracial president of the United States? {sep_token} Why were Americans allowed to start checking more than one box to identify their race in the Census in 200? {sep_token} Who was the first multiracial president elected in the US {sep_token} When did the US begin to experience a growing multiracial identity movement? {sep_token} Who are "mestizos"? {sep_token} When did the US census start to allow residents to mark more than one ethno-racial identity on the census form? {sep_token} What has brought more mixed race people to the US? {sep_token} What was it once considered socially advantageous to do? {sep_token} What is an example of the multiracial identity movement at work? {sep_token} What does the first multiracial president identify as? {sep_token} When did the census begin allowing multiple boxes to be checked? {sep_token} When was an African American president elected? {sep_token}