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I'm not sure if it's a white people thing specifically, at least other than locally and recently. Maybe more of a "recent American society" thing.

Certainly when I was a kid I was usually watched by my grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, and so on. Only very rarely was I watched by sitters.

Part of it is modern mobility. Parents may live thousands of miles away from the grandparents, and elders are working in their own careers longer nowadays.

I think that it's a social status thing. I offered to move my in-laws in here, but I think they see multigenerational living as a sort of failure. These sentiments will change, not in time for my children, but hopefully by the time I am a grandparent.

I'm white and I can tell you it's generally normal here. However we are bit backwards, so it might disappear with progress.