The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream Alba Richard
Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country's futureAmericans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country's…
Specifikacia The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream Alba Richard
Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country's futureAmericans 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