{"id":60739,"date":"2021-04-19T15:56:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60739"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:39:49","slug":"web-event-the-great-demographic-illusion-majority-minority-and-the-expanding-american-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60739","title":{"rendered":"Web Event: The great demographic illusion: Majority, minority, and the expanding American mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/events\/the-great-demographic-illusion-majority-minority-and-the-expanding-american-mainstream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Web Event: The great demographic illusion: Majority, minority, and the expanding American mainstream<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Enterprise Institute<\/a><br \/>\n2021-04-19, 12:00-13:30 EDT<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/90ZgeOLmrhQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The majority-minority thesis contends that increasing demographic change in America will inevitably lead to a nation where minorities replace whites as the majority. In his new book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream<\/a>\u201d (Princeton University Press, 2020), sociologist Richard Alba argues that this narrative distorts ongoing changes because it overlooks the surge of young Americans growing up with one white and one nonwhite parent.<\/p>\n<p>Please join AEI for a panel discussion, moderated by AEI\u2019s Karlyn Bowman, on mixed-race families, US Census definitions, Hispanic identity across generations, personal definitions of race, and the implications for American politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/events\/the-great-demographic-illusion-majority-minority-and-the-expanding-american-mainstream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-great-demographic-illusion.jpg?x91208\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Agenda<\/strong><br \/>\n12:00 PM<br \/>\nIntroduction:<br \/>\n<strong>Karlyn Bowman<\/strong>, Senior Fellow, <em>AEI<\/em><\/p>\n<p>12:05 PM<br \/>\nPresentation:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/Page-Elements\/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives\/Doctoral-Programs\/Sociology\/Faculty-Bios\/Richard-Alba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Richard Alba<\/strong><\/a>, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, City University of New York<\/p>\n<p>12:30 PM<br \/>\nDiscussion<\/p>\n<p>Panelists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Musa al-Gharbi<\/strong>, <strong>Paul F. Lazarsfeld<\/strong> Fellow in Sociology, <em>Columbia University<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>D\u2019Vera Cohn<\/strong>, Senior Writer and Editor, <em>Pew Research Center<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Hugo Lopez<\/strong>, Director, Global Migration and Demography Research, <em>Pew Research Center<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ruy Teixeira<\/strong>, Senior Fellow, <em>Center for American Progress<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderator:<br \/>\n<strong>Karlyn Bowman<\/strong>, Senior Fellow, <em>AEI<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1:10 PM<br \/>\nQ&amp;A<\/p>\n<p>1:30 PM<br \/>\nAdjournment<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/events\/the-great-demographic-illusion-majority-minority-and-the-expanding-american-mainstream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join AEI for a panel discussion, moderated by AEI\u2019s Karlyn Bowman, on mixed-race families, US Census definitions, Hispanic identity across generations, personal definitions of race, and the implications for American politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,13743,13,8,26,394,20,842],"tags":[31392,31391,14187,31395,14994,31393,31394,9186],"class_list":["post-60739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-interviews","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-aei","tag-american-enterprise-institute","tag-dvera-cohn","tag-karlyn-bowman","tag-mark-hugo-lopez","tag-musa-al-gharbi","tag-paul-f-lazarsfeld","tag-richard-alba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60739","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=60739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60744,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60739\/revisions\/60744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}