{"id":45598,"date":"2016-02-12T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45598"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:31:08","slug":"the-latino-flight-to-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45598","title":{"rendered":"The Latino Flight to Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/latino-flight-whiteness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Latino Flight to Whiteness<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American Prospect<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-11<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sanford.duke.edu\/people\/faculty\/darity-jr-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Darity Jr.<\/a><\/strong>, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy; Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy; Professor of African and African American Studies; Professor of Economics<br \/>\n<em>Duke University, Durham, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a contribution to <a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/prospect-debate-illusion-minority-majority-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prospect Debate: The Illusion of a Minority-Majority America<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Based upon trends in racial self-classification, one has to be skeptical about the emergence of \u201cmajority-minority\u201d America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Will the United States have a majority of people of color by the year 2050, as both researchers and the popular press commonly assert? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/Page-Elements\/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives\/Doctoral-Programs\/Sociology\/Faculty-Bios\/Richard-Alba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Alba<\/a> urges skepticism because, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he argues<\/a>, U.S. Census policy overestimates the presence of nonwhites in the American population. As Alba observes, in mixed-race marriages where one parent is white and the other nonwhite, the Census uses a default rule of counting all the children as nonwhite, even though that is not necessarily how the children see themselves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/latino-flight-whiteness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based upon trends in racial self-classification, one has to be skeptical about the emergence of \u201cmajority-minority\u201d America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,26,394,20],"tags":[17840,9186,5208,7068,7065],"class_list":["post-45598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-american-prospect","tag-richard-alba","tag-the-american-prospect","tag-william-darity","tag-william-darity-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45598","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=45598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54968,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45598\/revisions\/54968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}