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This edition: Richard Alba on the Demographic Future of America


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Original tape date: October 6, 2020. First aired: October 12, 2020.

Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at The CUNY Graduate Center, discusses his new book, "The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream,” sharing with Bob Herbert how the supposed near future majority-minority narrative is misleading.

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Richard Alba Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The CUNY Graduate Center, Author of The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream

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