Tag: Brookings Institution

  • The question is whether a separate legal racial category is needed to provide that protection. Race in this country has been “crafted from the point of view of [white] race protection”22— protecting the interests of white Americans from usurpation by nonwhites and, unless the creation of a separate multiracial legal category advances this goal, change…

  • Older white Americans still hold most of the economic and political power in the US. But the great ethnic diversity of younger generations means that change is coming.

  • 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…

  • 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.…