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  • The Myth of Majority-Minority America

    The Myth of Majority-Minority America Slate 2012-05-22 Matthew Yglesias, Business and Economics Correspondent It’s rare that a Census Bureau press release dominates the front pages, but last week’s headline “Most Children Younger Than 1 Are Minorities, Census Reports” was the thrilling exception. The shortage of white Anglo babies, the press was eager to tell us,…

  • The Real American Love Story: Why America is a lot less white than it looks

    The Real American Love Story: Why America is a lot less white than it looks Slate 1999-10-05 Brent Staples The PBS broadcast last month of An American Love Story—a 10-hour film about an interracial family—spawned a great deal of chatter to the effect that mixed-race couplings were the wave of the future. In fact, they…

  • White Weddings: The incredible staying power of the laws against interracial marriage

    Last week, the Alabama Senate voted to repeal the state’s constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage, 32 years after the Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s similar ban. Hadn’t these archaic laws gone out with Bull Connor? I asked myself as I read the news account. And haven’t we been hearing that America has rediscovered the melting…

  • Blood Simple: The politics of miscegenation

    The “Negro problem,” wrote Norman Podhoretz in 1963, would not be solved unless color itself disappeared: “and that means not integration, it means assimilation, it means—let the brutal word come out—miscegenation.”