American diversity : a demographic challenge for the twenty-first century / edited by Nancy A. Denton and Stewart E. Tolnay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Denton, Nancy A.

Tolnay, Stewart Emory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--Congresses.

Cultural pluralism.

Ethnicity.

Minorities.

Social conditions.

Ethnic relations.

Population.

United States--Population--Congresses.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

United States--Race relations--Congresses.

Race relations.

Minorities--United States--Social conditions--Congresses.

Ethnicity--United States--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Summary:

Presenting important work by well-known demographers, American Diversity focuses on U.S. population changes in the twenty-first century, emphasizing the nation's increasing racial and ethnic diversity. Rather than focusing on separate groups sequentially, this work emphasizes comparisons across groups and highlights how demographic and social structural processes affect all groups. Specific topics covered include the formation of race and ethnicity; population projections by race; immigration, fertility, and mortality differentials; segregation; work and education; intermarriage; aging; and racism.

Contents:

Introduction: Multicultural Insights from the Study of Demography / Nancy A. Denton, Stewart E. Tolnay 1

Part I. Population: The Initial Numbers

Chapter 1. The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity: Some Examples from Demography / Mary C. Waters 25

Chapter 2. Race and Ethnic Population Projections: A Critical Evaluation of Their Content and Meaning / Charles Hirschman 51

Part II. Basic Demographic Processes and Diversity

Chapter 3. The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States / Douglas S. Massey 75

Chapter 4. Racial and Ethnic Fertility Differentials in the United States / Gray Swicegood, S. Philip Morgan 99

Chapter 5. Mortality Differentials in a Diverse Society / Richard G. Rogers 129

Part III. Life Cycle and Diversity

Chapter 6. Housing Segregation: Policy Issues for an Increasingly Diverse Society / Michael J. White, Eileen Shy 159

Chapter 7. Education and Employment in a Diverse Society: Generating Inequality through the School-to-Work Transition / V. Joseph Hotz, Marta Tienda 185

Chapter 8. Ethnic and Racial Intermarriage in the United States: Old and New Regimes / Gillian Stevens, Michael K. Tyler 221

Chapter 9. Sixty-five Plus in the U.S.A. / Cynthia M. Taeuber 243

Part IV. Implications and Conclusions

Chapter 10. Rethinking American Diversity: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges for Racial and Ethnic Demography / Hayward Derrick Horton 261.

Notes:

Papers presented at the 13th annual Albany Conference, "American diversity: a democratic challenge for the twenty-first century."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0791453979

0791453987

OCLC:

47797664