The Surge of Young Americans from Minority-White Mixed Families & Its Significance for the Future.

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  • Author(s): Alba, Richard (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Daedalus. Spring2021, Vol. 150 Issue 2, p199-214. 16p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      METADATA; TWENTY-first century
    • Abstract:
      The number of youth from mixed majority-minority families, in which one parent is White and the other minority, is surging in the early twenty-first century. This development is challenging both our statistical schemes for measuring ethnicity and race as well as our thinking about their demographic evolution in the near future. This essay summarizes briefly what we know about mixed minority-White Americans and includes data about their growing numbers as well as key social characteristics of children and adults from mixed backgrounds. The essay concludes that this phenomenon highlights weaknesses in our demographic data system as well as in the majority-minority narrative about how American society is changing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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