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THE RACIAL INCORPORATION OF LATINOS INTO THE U.S. MAINSTREAM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2013

Tiffany Joseph*
Affiliation:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar, Harvard University
*
Tiffany D. Joseph, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. E-mail: tjoseph@rwj.harvard.edu

Extract

For the last decade, scholars have pondered how the changing ethnoracial demographics of the United States would influence the country's racial, social, political, cultural, and economic landscape. Latinos are now the country's largest ethnoracial minority and the 2012 election provided an indication of just how significant this group will be for shaping the future of the United States. Scholars of race in particular have speculated how the ethnic and racial diversity of Latinos will change existing U.S. racial dynamics with some arguing that the historical Black/White binary will remain intact with Latinos falling on one or the other side of the binary. Yet, other scholars suggest that the Black/White binary will shift to a Black/non-Black binary in which Blacks will remain at the bottom of the U.S. ethnoracial hierarchy while Asian Americans and Latinos will be grouped with Whites. Going even further, another set of scholars argues that the size of the Latino population and its more fluid racial boundaries will trigger a Latin-Americanization of U.S. race relations such that Whites will remain at the top of the hierarchy, with Blacks and a few other lower-socioeconomic-status (SES) minority groups at the bottom while there will be an intermediate group between, “the Honorary Whites,” that consists of mixed-race individuals and higher SES Asians and Latinos.

Type
State of the Discourse
Copyright
Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2013 

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REFERENCES

Joseph, Tiffany (2011). Race and ‘Making America’ in Brazil: How Brazilian Return Migrants Negotiate Race in the U.S. and Brazil. PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Google Scholar
Joseph, Tiffany (forthcoming). How Does Racial Democracy Exist in Brazil? Perceptions from Brazilians in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(10).Google Scholar