This article examines whether the size of racial minority populations is associated with
whites' perceptions that different racial groups face discrimination. Correlational studies …

Racial minorities will soon outnumber white Americans in the US Prior research suggests
that this demographic shift is likely to increase white peoples' feelings of threat and anti …

Recent Census Bureau projections indicate that racial/ethnic minorities will comprise over
50% of the US population by 2042, effectively creating a so-called “majority–minority” nation …

The United States is undergoing a demographic shift in which White Americans are
predicted to comprise less than 50% of the US population by mid-century. The present …

Scholarly interest in the correlates and consequences of perceived discrimination has grown
exponentially in recent years, yet, despite increased legal and media attention to claims of …

Survey research has documented the extent to which whites misperceive the size of the
nonwhite population in the United States. However, the sociological reasons for this and the …

This research focuses on whites' reactions to the racial composition of the local population.
Multilevel modeling is applied to a micro/macro data file that links 1990 General Social …

Past research indicates that diversity at the level of larger geographic units (eg, counties) is
linked to white racial hostility. However, research has not addressed whether diverse local …

Tracing the roots of racial attitudes in historical events and individual biographies has been
a long‐standing goal of race relations scholars. Recent years have seen a new …

Americans do not know what percentage of the nation's residents are whites, blacks,
Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians. Using the 2000 General Social Survey, I find that …