The Great Demographic Illusion : : Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream / / Richard Alba.
Why the number of young Americans with ethno-racially mixed backgrounds 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 ch...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 15 b/w illus. 7 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: The Narrative of the Majority-Minority Society
- 2. The Enigma of November 2016
- 3. The Power of the Demographic Imagination
- 4. The Demographic Data System and the Surge of Young Americans from Mixed Family Backgrounds
- 5. What We Know about Americans from Mixed Minority-White Families
- 6. Some Ideas and History for Understanding Today’s Ethno-Racial Mixing
- 7. Assimilation in the Early Twenty-First Century
- 8. Social Policies to Broaden Mainstream Assimilation
- 9 Toward a New Understanding of American Possibilities
- Notes
- Bibliography
- index