{"id":42583,"date":"2015-09-07T02:07:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42583"},"modified":"2015-09-07T02:07:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T02:07:42","slug":"the-coming-white-minority-brazilianization-or-south-africanization-of-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42583","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cComing White Minority\u201d: Brazilianization or South-Africanization of U.S.?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cComing White Minority\u201d: Brazilianization or South-Africanization of U.S.?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Racism Review: scholarship and activism towards racial justice<\/a>
\n2015-08-31<\/p>\n

Joe Feagin<\/a><\/strong>, Ella C. McFadden and Distinguished Professor of Sociology
\nTexas A&M University<\/em><\/p>\n

To understand the so-called \u201cbrowning of America\u201d and \u201ccoming white minority,\u201d we should accent the larger societal context, the big-picture context including systemic racism. \u201cBrowning of America\u201d issues have become important in the West mainly because whites are very worried about this demographic trend. Black-British scholar, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown<\/a>, has noted that whites are fearful<\/p>\n

because for such a long time the world has been their own. . . . There is an underlying assumption that says white is right. . . . There is a white panic every time one part of their world seems to be passing over to anyone else. . . . There was this extraordinary assumption that white people could go and destroy peoples and it would have no consequence.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let us consider a few reasonable, albeit speculative, extrapolations of current social science data to social changes from now to the 2050s:<\/p>\n

(1) Dramatic demographic changes are coming: According to US Census projections this country will become much less white, with the greatest relative growth in the Latino, Asian, and multiracial populations. By 2050 it will be about 439 million people, with a majority of people of color (53 percent), the largest group being Latino (30 percent). Long before, a majority of students and younger workers will be of color. Over coming decades immigrant workers of color and their descendants will keep more cities from economic decline. Census data for 2050 indicate the oldest population cohort will be disproportionately white and younger cohorts will be disproportionately people of color\u2013thereby overlaying a racial divide with a generational divide, probably generating racial-generational conflicts (See William Frey, The Diversity Explosion<\/em><\/a>)…<\/p>\n

…A Panoramic View: Brazilianization or South-Africanization?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In recent years numerous scholars and media analysts have suggested the idea of significantly greater racial intermediation coming as the U.S. becomes much less white. Taking a panoramic view, they suggest a future that involves a \u201cBrazilianization\u201d or \u201cLatinization\u2019 of the United States.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s racialization process has distinguished large mixed-race, mostly lighter-skinned groups and placed them in a middling status between Brazilians of mostly African ancestry and those of heavily European ancestry. Middle groups are relatively more affluent, politically powerful, and acceptable to dominant white Brazilians, who still mostly rule powerfully at the top of the economy and politics. About half the population, darker-skinned Afro-Brazilians and indigenous Brazilians, remains very powerless economically and politically. Possibly, in the U.S. case by 2050, a developed tripartite Brazilian pattern\u2014with increasing and large but white-positioned intermediate racial groups, such as lighter-skinned middle class groups among Asian Americans and Latinos, moving up with greater economic and socio-political power and providing a racial buffer between powerful \u201cwhites\u201d and powerless \u201cblacks\u201d and other darker-skinned people of color. Even then, it seems likely that many in U.S. middle groups will find their white-framed immigration, citizenship positions, or other inferiorized status still negatively affecting additional mobility opportunities…<\/p>\n

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

The \u201cComing White Minority\u201d: Brazilianization or South-Africanization of U.S.? Racism Review: scholarship and activism towards racial justice 2015-08-31 Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden and Distinguished Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University To understand the so-called \u201cbrowning of America\u201d and \u201ccoming white minority,\u201d we should accent the larger societal context, the big-picture context including systemic racism. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,83,21,33,8,394,520,20],"tags":[2340,7897,2669],"class_list":["post-42583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","category-usa","tag-joe-feagin","tag-joe-r-feagin","tag-racism-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42583","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=42583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42584,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42583\/revisions\/42584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}