Tag: Bill Frey

  • Black-white mixed race identity rises in the South The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-08-12 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow As shown in my book, “Diversity Explosion,” the growth of black-white marriages in the United States is unmistakable, as are the gains in the population that identifies itself as “white and black,” particularly among the very…

  • Multiracial marriages are dispersing across the country The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-06-18 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow As I discuss in my book, “Diversity Explosion,” the geographic dispersion of minority populations from traditional melting-pot regions to the rest of the country sets the stage for the dispersion of multiracial marriages as well. To be…

  • Our rising white-black multiracial population The Avenue / Rethinking Metropolitan America The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-02-23 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program The fastest growing racial group in the country is those who identify themselves as “two or more” races. Yet, perhaps most encouraging, as discussed in my book Diversity Explosion, is…

  • How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America The Diane Rehm Show WAMU 88.5 FM Washington, D.C. 2015-01-05 Diane Rehm, Host Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center Jim Tankersley, Economic Policy Correspondent The Washington Post William Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program (author of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America)…

  • Multiracial Marriage on the Rise The Brookings Institution The Avenue: Rethinking Metropoliitian America 2014-12-18 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program One consequence of America’s diversity explosion is a rise in multiracial marriages. In 1960, before immigration levels to the United States started to rise, multiracial marriages constituted only 0.4 percent of all U.S.…

  • New Projections Point to a Majority Minority Nation in 2044 Brookings Instituion Washington, D.C. 2014-12-12 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program New population projections released this week by the Census Bureau indicate that the U.S. population will become “majority minority” in 2044. At that time, whites will make up 49.7 percent of the…

  • The Major Demographic Shift That’s Upending How We Think About Race The New Republic 2014-11-28 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Reprinted with permission from Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America by William H. Frey (Brookings Press, 2014). The usual way that race labels are applied…

  • At its optimistic best, America has embraced its identity as the world’s melting pot. Today it is on the cusp of becoming a country with no racial majority, and new minorities are poised to exert a profound impact on U.S. society, economy, and politics.

  • In Census, Young Americans Increasingly Diverse The New York Times 2011-02-04 Sabrina Tabernise WASHINGTON — Demographers sifting through new population counts released on Thursday by the Census Bureau say the data bring a pattern into sharper focus: Young Americans are far less white than older generations, a shift that demographers say creates a culture gap…