In a recent Time Magazine issue a section, 10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years, got my antennae twitching. One article that struck me as most interesting was the: The White Anxiety Crisis, from Gregory Rodriquez: Two competing narratives dominate our debate about the ongoing ethnic and demographic transformation of America. The first holds that non-European immigrants — O.K., let's be honest, Mexicans — will rip apart the nation's social fabric. The second has it that the diversity of younger generations of Americans will inevitably lead to a more integrated, postracial era. But both of these narratives are off the mark. With some minor differences, today's immigrants are assimilating into U.S. society in ways not terribly unlike those of millions before them. At the same time, it's likely that decades from now, Americans will still invest a lot of meaning in group distinctions.
According to the Census Bureau, by 2050 whites will be a minority group in the U.S. How the current majority reacts to its incipient minority status is the most crucial sociodemographic issue facing the country in the decade to come.
And according to sociologists white America it seems is doing everything in its power to keep Hispanics subservient in order to retain its grip. Two recent New York Times articles, Barriers Found to College Degrees for Hispanics, and Study Finds College Graduation Gap Between Hispanic and White Students are worth reading.
