Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

Whiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities

This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming
increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics.
Over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the
century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the
majority in the UK and other countries. The early stages of this
transformation have led to a populist disruption, tearing a path through
the usual politics of left and right. Ethnic transformation will
continue, but conservative whites are unlikely to exit quietly; their
feelings of alienation are already redrawing political lines and
convulsing societies across the West. One of the most crucial challenges
of our time is to enable conservatives as well as cosmopolitans to view
whiteshift as a positive development.

In this groundbreaking book, political scientist Eric Kaufmann
examines the evidence to explore ethnic change in North American and
Western Europe. Tracing four ways of dealing with this
transformation-fight, repress, flight, and join-he charts different
scenarios and calls for us to move beyond empty talk about national
identity. If we want to avoid more radical political divisions, he
argues, we have to open up debate about the future of white majorities.

Deeply thought provoking, enriched with illustrative stories, and
drawing on detailed and extraordinary survey, demographic, and electoral
data, Whiteshift will redefine the way we discuss race in the twenty-first century.