Creating a new racial order
Subtitle: how immigration, multiracialism, genomics, and the young can remake race in America
By: Jennifer Hochschild, Vesla  Weaver, Traci Burch
Contributors: Weaver, Vesla M., 1979-; Burch, Traci R., 1979-
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Princeton University Pres
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J; [S.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780691160931
Subjects: Race relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Population; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "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 1960s. 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The argument; title: 1. Destabilizing the American racial order; title: Part II. Creating a new order; title: 2. Immigration; title: 3. Multiracialism; title: 4. Genomics; title: 5. Cohort change; title: 6. Blockages to racial transformation; title: Part III. Possibilities; title: 7. The future of the American racial order.