You Are Doing a Presentation with a Friend from Your

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You are doing a presentation with a friend from your class titled, "Whitening: From Minority Status to Majority Status?" The friend is keen to focus on arguments concerning Latino and Asian Americans blending into the dominant white group, including via the growing percentage of interracial marriages involving whites and Latinos or Asian Americans. Explain to your friend that such arguments are debatable and frequently refuted by social science data. Be sure to include recent surveys cited in Chapter 8 that strongly suggest that substantial majorities of white Americans are not yet incorporating the major groups of color into a white, or even near-white, category.