Blurring the Color Line - The New Chance for a More Integrated America

Informationen zum Autor Richard Alba is Distinguished Professor of Sociology! the Graduate Center! City University of New York. Klappentext During the mid-twentieth century! the dominant position of the United States in the postwar world economy led to a rapid expansion of education and labor opportunities. This title argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct! unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically. Zusammenfassung Alba argues that the social cleavages separating Americans into distinct! unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. In Blurring the Color Line! Alba explores a future in which socially mobile minorities could blur stark boundaries and gain much more control over the social expression of racial differences. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Acknowledgments * Paradoxes of Race and Ethnicity in America Today * The Puzzle of Ethno-Racial Change * Solving the Puzzle: A New Theory of Boundary Change * Contemporary Dynamics of Minority Mobility * An Extraordinary Opportunity: The Exit of the Baby Boomers * The Contingencies of Change * Imagining a More Integrated Future * Notes * Index

Product details

• Authors: Richard Alba, Alba Richard
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2012
• EAN: 9780674064706
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06470-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures; The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Population and Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Civics and citizenship