White Americans, the new minority? Non-Blacks and the ever-expanding boundaries of whiteness

We Hispanics are, finally, like other immigrant groups… Yes, the Hispanics are going to become more like the majority. Their families will be smaller, better educated, more traveled. Roots will be lost. Language will be lost. Food will be the last to go. We will be eating tacos and tortillas for a long time to come. (Cesar Chavez, cited in Morgan, 1985, pp. 79–80) The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro. (James Baldwin, cited in Leeming, 1994). © 1997, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.