Blurring the Color Line

Blurring the Color Line
Author :
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 321
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780674064706
ISBN-13 : 0674064704
Rating : 4/5 (704 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Blurring the Color Line by : Richard Alba

Download or read book Blurring the Color Line written by Richard Alba and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. 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. As a result of their newfound access to training and jobs, many ethnic and religious outsiders, among them Jews and Italians, finally gained full acceptance as members of the mainstream. Alba proposes that this large-scale assimilation of white ethnics was a result of Ònon-zero-sum mobility,Ó which he defines as the social ascent of members of disadvantaged groups that can take place without affecting the life chances of those who are already members of the established majority. Alba shows that non-zero-sum mobility could play out positively in the future as the baby-boom generation retires, opening up the higher rungs of the labor market. Because of the changing demography of the country, many fewer whites will be coming of age than will be retiring. Hence, the opportunity exists for members of other groups to move up. However, Alba cautions, this demographic shift will only benefit disadvantaged American minorities if they are provided with access to education and training. 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.


Blurring the Color Line Related Books

Blurring the Color Line
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Richard Alba
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-05 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

GET EBOOK

Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades
Rethinking the Color Line
Language: en
Pages: 580
Authors: Charles Andrew Gallagher
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

GET EBOOK

A collection for an undergraduate course, providing a theoretical framework and analytical tools and discussing the meaning of race and ethnicity as a social co
Tripping on the Color Line
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Heather M. Dalmage
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

GET EBOOK

Through in-depth interviews with individuals from black-white multiracial families, and insightful sociological analysis, Heather M. Dalmage examines the challe
Dispatches from the Color Line
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Catherine R. Squires
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-05 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

GET EBOOK

When modern news media choose to focus attention on people of multiracial descent, how does this fit with broader contemporary and historical racial discourses?
Confounding the Color Line
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: James Brooks
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-07-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

GET EBOOK

Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North