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Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future

Overview of attention for article published in Demography, February 2013
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8 news outlets
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1 blog
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1 policy source

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Title
Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future
Published in
Demography, February 2013
DOI 10.1007/s13524-013-0197-1
Pubmed ID
Authors

Daniel T. Lichter

Abstract

Over the next generation or two, America's older, largely white population will increasingly be replaced by today's disproportionately poor minority children. All future growth will come from populations other than non-Hispanic whites as America moves toward a majority-minority society by 2043. This so-called Third Demographic Transition raises important implications about changing racial boundaries in the United States, that is, about the physical, economic, and sociocultural barriers that separate different racial and ethnic groups. America's racial transformation may place upward demographic pressure on future poverty and inequality as today's disproportionately poor and minority children grow into adult roles. Racial boundaries will be reshaped by the changing meaning of race and ethnicity, shifting patterns of racial segregation in neighborhoods and the workplace, newly integrating (or not) friendship networks, and changing rates of interracial marriage and childbearing. The empirical literature provides complicated lessons and offers few guarantees that growing racial diversity will lead to a corresponding breakdown in racial boundaries-that whites and minorities will increasingly share the same physical and social spaces or interact as coequals. How America's older population of elected officials and taxpayers responds today to America's increasingly diverse population will provide a window to the future, when today's children successfully transition (or not) into productive adult roles. Racial and ethnic inclusion will be reshaped by changing ethnoracial inequality, which highlights the need to invest in children-now.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 233 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 85 36%
Student > Doctoral Student 40 17%
Student > Master 27 11%
Researcher 13 5%
Professor 12 5%
Other 32 14%
Unknown 28 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 136 57%
Psychology 13 5%
Arts and Humanities 13 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 3%
Other 23 10%
Unknown 38 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 77. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 February 2017.
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#463,091
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Outputs from Demography
#120
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#3,214
of 192,960 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Demography
#1
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