Citation

Farley R. Soc. Sci. Res. 1997; 26(3): 235-262.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1006/ssre.1997.0597

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In the 30 years since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, racial diversity in the United States has increased through high nonwhite birth rates and, for Asians and Hispanics, increased immigration. Demographic and survey data reveal differences in age distribution, fertility, mortality, and family structure. The races are stratified in education, employment, and earnings, with Asians at the top and blacks, Hispanics, and Indians at the bottom, though the differences are smaller for women. Blacks in particular have benefited from legislation and changing white attitudes. However, continued negative stereotyping leads many whites, even if they endorse equal opportunity, to regard black employees, borrowers, or tenants as undesirable, limiting improvements in black economic improvement. Housing integration was the last area to be accepted by whites and is marked by especially severe obstacles. The newer racial minorities may be moving to overtake blacks as Eastern European whites did in earlier decades.