Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Great Demographic IllusionCondition: NewEAN: 9780691201634ISBN: 9780691201634Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/01/2020Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Richard AlbaLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American MainstreamISBN-10: 0691201633Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Great Demographic Illusion
Title: The Great Demographic Illusion
EAN: 9780691201634
ISBN: 9780691201634
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Release Year: 2020
Subtitle: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
ISBN-10: 0691201633
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Great Demographic Illusion : Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Demography, Sociology / General, Emigration & Immigration, United States / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 24.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.6 in
Author: Richard Alba
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
