Immigration & the Color Line at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Author:

Bean Frank D.1,Lee Jennifer2,Bachmeier James D.3

Affiliation:

1. FRANK D. BEAN is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy. His publications include The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America (with Jennifer Lee, 2010), America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity (with Gillian Stevens, 2003), and Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity, and Employment in the United States (edited...

2. JENNIFER LEE is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her publications include The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in Twenty-First Century America (with Frank D. Bean, 2010), Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (edited with Min Zhou, 2004), and Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America (2002).

3. JAMES D. BACHMEIER is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University. His research focuses on Mexican migration to and within the United States, as well as the incorporation of second- and later-generation Mexican immigrants, especially in the areas of education, the labor market, and health. He has published articles in several journals, including Social Forces, Social Science Research, and International Migration Review.

Abstract

The “color line” has long served as a metaphor for the starkness of black/white relations in the United States. Yet post-1965 increases in U.S. immigration have brought millions whose ethnoracial status seems neither black nor white, boosting ethnoracial diversity and potentially changing the color line. After reviewing past and current conceptualizations of America's racial divide(s), we ask what recent trends in intermarriage and multiracial identification – both indicators of ethnoracial boundary dissolution – reveal about ethnoracial color lines in today's immigrant America. We note that rises in intermarriage and multiracial identification have emerged more strongly among Asians and Latinos than blacks and in more diverse metropolitan areas. Moreover, these tendencies are larger than would be expected based solely on shifts in the relative sizes of ethnoracial groups, suggesting that immigrationgenerated diversity is associated with cultural change that is dissolving ethnoracial barriers – but more so for immigrant groups than blacks.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,Political Science and International Relations,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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