The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

by Richard Alba

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069120621X
• ISBN13: 9780691206219
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"