Mark Hugo Lopez is the director of race and ethnicity research at Pew Research Center. He and his colleagues recently conducted a sweeping survey about how Americans identify their racial, ethnic and foreign country origins.The results show that how we see ourselves isn’t fixed. It fluctuates and evolves -- revealing that identity can be as much a function of how we measure it as how we regard ourselves in a given moment. Cardiff and Mark also discuss immigration trends, how American views on diversity have changed over time, and even a little bit of politics.

Links from the episode:

• Mark Hugo Lopez is on Twitter at @MHugoLopez
• Pew Research identity report (https://tinyurl.com/y7mv3zn5)
• The growing diversity of black America (https://tinyurl.com/823dm2su)
• Census on race and ethnicity measures (https://tinyurl.com/h2696u3j)
• Mark's book recommendation, Bless Me, Ultima (https://tinyurl.com/zeyw7stu)
• Cardiff and Aimee are on Twitter at @CardiffGarcia and @AimeePKeane
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