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Plus ça Change…? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States
Author(s) -
Bean Frank D.,
Lee Jennifer
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01595.x
Subject(s) - race (biology) , immigration , white (mutation) , color line , shadow (psychology) , diversity (politics) , mythology , gender studies , raising (metalworking) , racism , political science , sociology , history , law , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , psychotherapist , gene , classics
The issue of race has long cast a shadow on the founding mythology of the United States, but today some scholars argue race is declining in significance, as evidenced by the rise of interracial unions and the fact that the offspring of such unions can now officially acknowledge their mixed‐race backgrounds. However, the sizeable growth of the Asian and Latino populations in the United States through immigration complicates the issue. Seemingly neither black nor white, the new immigrants are generating increased diversity and raising questions about whether today's color line replicates the old Black–White demarcation. The research results introduced in this article suggest the contemporary color line in the United States more reflects a Black/non‐Black division than a White/non‐White one.