{"id":37787,"date":"2014-10-17T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37787"},"modified":"2014-10-19T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T12:56:52","slug":"does-diversity-breed-intolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37787","title":{"rendered":"Does Diversity Breed Intolerance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does Diversity Breed Intolerance?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BU Today<\/a>
\nBoston University, Boston, Massachusetts
\n2014-09-25<\/p>\n

Rich Barlow<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer
\nTelephone: 617-358-3877<\/p>\n

Some whites fear impending minority status, research says<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDiversity\u201d is said to be the sun of our civic solar system, shining bright harmony everywhere from society at large<\/a> to university campuses<\/a>. Katherine Levine Einstein<\/a> is certainly an apostle of this view. The College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of political science studies racially segregated areas and finds that separation polarizes and paralyzes those places\u2019 politics.<\/p>\n

But Boston\u2019s commuter rail system shakes her faith.<\/p>\n

Harvard colleague Ryan Enos<\/a> surveyed<\/a> white subjects about their views on Mexican immigration levels, asking, among other things, if they favored allowing noncriminal, employed illegal immigrants to remain in the country. Enos sought responses twice: once before exposing the whites to more Hispanic commuters on train platforms and once after. Support for immigration and allowing the undocumented to stay plunged in the \u201cafter\u201d follow-up from what it had been in the \u201cbefore\u201d survey.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Harvard research, two Northwestern University studies fuel Einstein\u2019s pessimism. One found<\/a> that as whites learned that they will become a minority, they grew more conservative and Republican-leaning. The other<\/a> reported that whites who were aware of their future minority status became more negative towards nonwhites and preferred hanging out with their own race…<\/p>\n

…Marilyn Halter<\/a> (GRS\u201986), a CAS history professor, sees a fundamental flaw in the Northwestern methodology. \u201cI have found no evidence whatsoever of backsliding on racial tolerance in the marketplace, whether from the marketers or the consumer side of the equation,\u201d says Halter, whose 2000 book Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity<\/em><\/a> is about how American businesses have tailored their products to immigrant consumers in recent decades.<\/p>\n

She also argues that the growth of mixed-race Americans\u2014more than nine million checked two or more race categories on the 2010 US Census, up 32 percent from 2000<\/a>, she says\u2014means \u201cit will be increasingly irrelevant to divide up the electorate into white, black, and brown.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFuture projections about the impact of a minority white nation don\u2019t take into account the changing meaning of whiteness,\u201d she says. \u201cI know that the research is attempting to measure how people react to the idea<\/em> of a future white minority, but the very concept is so oversimplified and inaccurate, I think it invalidates the findings.\u2026I do not think that greater diversity leads to more intolerance.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does Diversity Breed Intolerance? BU Today Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 2014-09-25 Rich Barlow, Staff Writer Telephone: 617-358-3877 Some whites fear impending minority status, research says \u201cDiversity\u201d is said to be the sun of our civic solar system, shining bright harmony everywhere from society at large to university campuses. Katherine Levine Einstein is certainly an apostle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,394,20],"tags":[18180,18190,18182,18183,18181,18178,18179],"class_list":["post-37787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-bu-today","tag-katherine-levine-einstein","tag-marilyn-halter","tag-nazli-kibria","tag-rich-barlow","tag-ryan-d-enos","tag-ryan-enos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}