The Great Demographic Illusion (eBook)

Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

Richard Alba (Autor)

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2020
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20211-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country's future Americans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country's future-the majority-minority narrative-which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States's history. The Great Demographic Illusion reveals that this narrative obscures a more transformative development: the rising numbers of young Americans from ethno-racially mixed families, consisting of one white and one nonwhite parent. Examining the unprecedented significance of mixed parentage in the twenty-first-century United States, Richard Alba looks at how young Americans with this background will play pivotal roles in the country's demographic future.Assembling a vast body of evidence, Alba explores where individuals of mixed parentage fit in American society. Most participate in and reshape the mainstream, as seen in their high levels of integration into social milieus that were previously white dominated. Yet, racism is evident in the very different experiences of individuals with black-white heritage. Alba's portrait squares in key ways with the history of immigrant-group assimilation, and indicates that, once again, mainstream American society is expanding and becoming more inclusive.Nevertheless, there are also major limitations to mainstream expansion today, especially in its more modest magnitude and selective nature, which hinder the participation of black Americans and some other people of color. Alba calls for social policies to further open up the mainstream by correcting the restrictions imposed by intensifying economic inequality, shape-shifting racism, and the impaired legal status of many immigrant families.Countering rigid demographic beliefs and predictions, The Great Demographic Illusion offers a new way of understanding American society and its coming transformation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus. 7 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • African Americans • American Community Survey • American Indians • American Protective Association • americans • Anglo • Asian Americans • asians • assimilation • assimilation mainstream • birth certificate • black people • British Americans • Census • Census Data • Citizenship of the United States • Civil Rights Act • Color line (civil rights issue) • Competition • Conservatism • Conviction rate • Crazy Rich Asians • credential • critical race theory • Criticism • culture of the united states • Current population survey (US) • demographic predictions • Demographic profile • demographic threat • Demographic Transition • Demography • developed country • disadvantage • Disparate treatment • Dowell Myers • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • Economic mobility • Economics • Educational attainment • educational inequality • Edward G. Robinson • Emancipation • Employment • Equal Opportunity • Eric Kaufmann • estimation • ethnic group • Ethnic option • Ethnic Origin • Ethno-racial • ethno-racially mixed • Eugenics • Exclusion • Expense • family income • Finding • gentile • George Orwell • grandparent • Great Recession • Headline • high school diploma • Hispanic • Hispanics • Household • Howard Fast • Hush Money • idealization • Identity (social science) • Illegal Immigration • immigrant-group assimilation • Immigration • income • income distribution • Indigenous peoples • Inflation • Institution • Institutional Racism • Intelligence Quotient • IPUMS • Italian Americans • Italians • Jews • kinship • Latin America • Latinos • Liberalism • Lump sum • mainstream media • majority minority • majority-minority society • Make America Great Again • marital status • marriage • mass assimilation • Mass Incarceration • mass migration • Mass Mobilization • Melting Pot • MESTIZO • Mexican Americans • mexicans • minority group • minority groups • minority-white Americans • miscegenation • misdemeanor • mixed ancestry • Mixed families • mixed family backgrounds • mixed parentage • Multiculturalism • multiracial • Multiracial Americans • narrative • Nationalism • Nationality • Native Americans • Native Americans in the United States • Noel Ignatiev • Non-Hispanic whites • non-zero-sum assimilation • non-zero-sum mobility • Opportunism • Oppression • parent • Passing (racial identity) • percentage • Percentage point • person of color • political radicalism • Political Science • Poll aggregator • Population Ageing • Population projection • Population projections • population pyramid • Prejudice • Prevalence • proportional representation • Race (human categorization) • Racial Demographics • racial hierarchy • racialism • Racialization • Racial segregation • Racism • Reactionary • redlining • Russell Sage Foundation • sampling bias • Sexism • Slavery • Social Class • Social Inequality • Social integration • Social mobility • Social Psychology • Social reality • Social Science • Social Status • Society • Society of the United States • Socioeconomic Status • Sociology • survey methodology • Tax • The Diversity Explosion • The New York Times • The Power Elite • United States Census Bureau • U.S Census • Wealth • Wealth inequality in the United States • wealth tax • welfare • white americans • white ethnics • white majority • White Nationalism • whiteness theory • white people • Whiteshift • white supremacy • William Frey • Workforce • Working Class • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20211-7 / 0691202117
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20211-2 / 9780691202112