The New Face of America: The Social and Political Implications of Growing Diversity in the U.S.

Event Details

Part of a new American Forum special series in Spring 2015 What Now? Dialogues on Race in America

Television Broadcast: May 10, 2014

In his most recent book, Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America, demographer WILLIAM H. FREY interprets and expounds on the dramatic growth of minority populations in the United States. He finds that without these expanding groups, America could face a bleak future: this new generation of young minorities, who are having children at a faster rate than whites, is infusing our aging labor force with vitality and innovation. Frey, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is known for his research on urban populations, migration, immigration, race, aging, political demographics, and his expertise on the U.S. Census. He was the first to predict that 2011 would be the first year in which more minority babies than white babies were born.