Book Description: Winner of the 2011 Otis Dudley Duncan Award
for Outstanding Scholarship in Social DemographyAfrican
Americans grappled with Jim Crow segregation until it was
legally overturned in the 1960s. In subsequent decades, the
country witnessed a new wave of immigration from Asia and Latin
America--forever changing the face of American society and
making it more racially diverse than ever before. In The
Diversity Paradox, authors Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean take
these two poles of American collective identity--the legacy of
slavery and immigration--and ask if today s immigrants are
destined to become racialized minorities akin to African
Americans or if their incorporation into U.S. society will more
closely resemble that of their European predecessors. They also
tackle the vexing question of whether America s new racial
diversity is helping to erode the tenacious black/white color
line.The Diversity Paradox uses population-based analyses and
in-depth interviews to examine patterns of intermarriage a