Creating a new racial order : how immigration, multiracialism, genomics, and the young can remake race in America / Traci R. Burch, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochschild, Jennifer L., author.

Burch, Traci R., author.

Weaver, Vesla M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weaver, Vesla M., 1979-.

Weaver, Vesla M.

Burch, Traci R., 1979-.

Burch, Traci R.

Race relations.

Genomics.

America--Emigration and immigration.

America.

United States--Race relations--History--21st century.

United States.

United States--Population--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The American racial order--the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities--is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960's. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected. Through revealing narrative and striking research, the authors show that the personal and political choices of Americans will be critical to how, and how much, racial hierarchy is redefined in decades to come. The authors outline the components that make up a racial order and examine the specific mechanisms influencing group dynamics in the United States: immigration, multiracialism, genomic science, and generational change. Cumulatively, these mechanisms increase heterogeneity within each racial or ethnic group, and decrease the distance separating groups from each other. The authors show that individuals are moving across group boundaries, that genomic science is challenging the whole concept of race, and that economic variation within groups is increasing. Above all, young adults understand and practice race differently from their elders: their formative memories are 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and Obama's election--not civil rights marches, riots, or the early stages of immigration. Blockages could stymie or distort these changes, however, so the authors point to essential policy and political choices. Portraying a vision, not of a postracial America, but of a different racial America, Creating a New Racial Order examines how the structures of race and ethnicity are altering a nation. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Part I: The Argument

1. Destabilizing the American Racial Order

Part II: Creating a New Order

2. Immigration

3. Multiracialism

4. Genomics

5. Cohort Change

6. Blockages to Racial Transformation

Part III: Possibilities

7. The Future of the American Racial Order

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-253) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9786613439802

9781283439800

1283439808

9781400841943

1400841941

OCLC:

778455403