Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (e-crow/iStock Images) In the past eight months we have seen what is tantamount to a wrecking ball smashing the meaning of the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, is facing a reprisal of attacks from some conservatives and their surrogates on her racial and cultural heritage, ethnic ...

Through immigration crackdowns and cultural purges, President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American. Why it matters: The ...

Rethinking identity in a fractured America As trust in institutions plummets and as many people search for shared values, what is the state of American identity? Today, in a special episode of “Post ...

Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she is not widely known as Asian American, reflecting the complexity of the identity. By Amy ...

Can background checks show whether your identity was stolen? concept of background check illustrated with hand holding magnifying glass coming out of computer screen Conducting a background check on ...

The dilemma arose just a few days before the book was set to go to press. Two contributing authors confronted their editor, Larry Gross, an associate professor of race and ethnic studies at University ...

"Jamaican is a national identity at the same time that it’s also a cultural identity and you can say the same for her Indian heritage," she said. "Those are her parents, but she's born here, and I ...