{"id":39279,"date":"2015-01-06T00:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39279"},"modified":"2015-01-06T00:49:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:49:01","slug":"how-new-racial-demographics-are-remaking-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39279","title":{"rendered":"How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedianerehmshow.org\/shows\/2015-01-05\/how_new_racial_demographics_are_remaking_America\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedianerehmshow.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Diane Rehm Show<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wamu.org\" target=\"_blank\">WAMU 88.5 FM<\/a><br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<br \/>\n2015-01-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedianerehmshow.org\/about\/host\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Diane Rehm<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/staff\/mark-hugo-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark Hugo Lopez<\/strong><\/a>, Director of Hispanic\u00a0Research<br \/>\n<em>Pew Research Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/jim-tankersley\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jim Tankersley<\/strong><\/a>, Economic Policy Correspondent<br \/>\n<em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/experts\/freyw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>William Frey<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program (author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38424\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America<\/em><\/a>)<br \/>\n<em>Brookings Institution<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.jamelle_bouie.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jamelle Bouie<\/strong><\/a>, Staff writer covering politics, policy, and race<br \/>\n<em>Slate<\/em><\/p>\n<p>America is becoming a country with no racial majority. In 2009, for the first time in U.S. history, more minority than white babies were born in a year. Soon, most American children will be racial minorities. The nation\u2019s diversity surge played a key role in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> election as president. Many see these trends as necessary as a much-needed younger minority labor force is already boosting an aging baby boom population. But challenges loom, including clashes over public resources, overcoming a cultural generation gap, and fears over losing privileged status. Diane and her guests discuss how new racial demographics are remaking America.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the show (00:51:40)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thedianerehmshow.org\/shows\/2015-01-05\/how_new_racial_demographics_are_remaking_America\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0Research 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) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,33,14647,13743,14646,8,26,394,20],"tags":[5384,18991,9476,18989,14994,18990,974,973],"class_list":["post-39279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-census","category-economics","category-interviews","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-bill-frey","tag-diane-rehm","tag-jamelle-bouie","tag-jim-tankersley","tag-mark-hugo-lopez","tag-the-diane-rehm-show","tag-william-frey","tag-william-h-frey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279","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=39279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}