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Author:
Alba, Richard D., author.
Title:
The great demographic illusion : majority, minority, and the expanding American mainstream / Richard Alba.
Publisher:
Princeton University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xiii, 312 pages : charts ; 25 cm
Subject:
Ethnic groups--United States.
Racially mixed people--United States.
Minorities--United States.
Majorities.
United States--History--History--21st century.
Ethnic groups.
Majorities.
Minorities.
Population.
Racially mixed people.
United States.
2000-2099
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-301) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the narrative of majority-minority society -- The enigma of November 2016 -- The power of the demographic imagination -- The demographic data system and the surge of young Americans from mixed family backgrounds -- What we know about Americans from mixed minority-white families -- Some ideas and history for understanding today's ethno-racial mixing -- Assimilation in the early twenty-first century -- Social policies to broaden mainstream assimilation -- Toward a new understanding of American possibilities.
Summary:
"A book that examines the growing population of mixed minority-white backgrounds and society"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
069120621X
9780691206219
0691201633
9780691201634
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1142950989
LCCN:
2020012702
Locations:
CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

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