8. Social Policies to Broaden Mainstream Assimilation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1. Introduction: The Narrative of the Majority-Minority Society 1
5. 2. The Enigma of November 2016 16
6. 3. The Power of the Demographic Imagination 35
7. 4. The Demographic Data System and the Surge of Young Americans from Mixed Family Backgrounds 57
8. 5. What We Know about Americans from Mixed Minority-White Families 88
9. 6. Some Ideas and History for Understanding Today’s Ethno-Racial Mixing 137
10. 7. Assimilation in the Early Twenty-First Century 180
11. 8. Social Policies to Broaden Mainstream Assimilation 213
12. 9 Toward a New Understanding of American Possibilities 243
13. Notes 263
14. Bibliography 279
15. index 303