Alba, Richard D.

Blurring the color line : the new chance for a more integrated America / Richard Alba. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - xii, 306 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Nathan I. Huggins lectures.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Paradoxes of race and ethnicity in America today -- The puzzle of ethno-racial change -- Solving the puzzle: a new theory of boundary change -- Contemporary dynamics of minority mobility -- An extraordinary opportunity: the exit of the baby boomers -- The contingencies of change -- Imagining a more integrated future.

9780674035133 (cloth : alk. paper) 0674035135 (cloth : alk. paper)


Minorities--United States


United States--Race relations

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