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Please view our conversation with the book author of The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream. (https: //press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691201634/the-great-demographic-illusion)

Americans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future―the majority-minority narrative―which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in the United States’s history. The Great Demographic Illusion reveals that this narrative obscures a more transformative development: the rising numbers of young Americans from ethno-racially mixed families, consisting of one white and one nonwhite parent. Examining the unprecedented significance of mixed parentage in the twenty-first-century United States, Richard Alba looks at how young Americans with this background will play pivotal roles in the country’s demographic future.

Book Authors:
Richard Alba (https: //www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Sociology/Faculty-Bios/Richard-Alba) is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Discussant:
Susan K. Brown (https: //www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4670) is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.

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