Alan Patten, Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2014) ("The United States has always been a culturally diverse society, and new wave so of immigration add to this diversity every day. To mention just one measure, a startling one out of five Americans reports using a language other than English at home. To most Americans, however, the country's cultural diversity is not deeply consequential for its political morality. Cultural diversity is is one more source of the differences that are pursued and expressed in the private realms of family, neighborhood, market, and civil society. The enjoyment of these differences is appropriately safeguarded by the liberties entrenched in the American constitutional tradition. But many believe that these generic protections of private life are all that is called for in the way of respect or accommodation of cultural diversity. Most Americans would have little sympathy for the idea that public institutions ought officially to protect or accommodate the cultural differences that exist in their country." Id. at vii. "The core case I develop in favor of strong cultural rights revolves around two main claims. The first holds that the liberal state has a responsibility to be neutral toward the various conceptions of the good that its citizens affirm. The second claims that, in certain domains, the only way for the state to discharge its responsibility for neutrality is by extending and protecting specific minority cultural rights. Although various qualifications and provisos are introduced along the way, and the rights that are justified must defeat countervailing considerations, the argument demonstrates why in some contexts, specific strong cultural rights are indeed a requirement of liberal justice." Id. at 27.).
William H. Frey, Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2015) ("The diversity explosion that the United States is now experiencing is ushering in the most demographically turbulent period in the country's recent history. By 'turbulent' I do not mean that the nation is about to experience sharp conflicts over its growing diversity. In fact, I believe just the opposite. As the United States comes to understand the magnitude and significance of this new diversity for its demographic and economic future and for its interconnectedness in an increasingly global village, it will seek to find ways to both embrace and nurture its diversity. This demographic turbulence, rather, offers the vibrancy, hope, and promise associated with young generations of new minorities from a variety of backgrounds interacting with older minorities and white Americans in their pursuit of opportunities in a country that is in dire need of more youth. [T]he growth of young, new minority populations from recent immigration and somewhat higher fertility is providing the country with a 'just in time' infusion of growth as the largely white U.S. popiuation continues to age." Id. at 239.).
