The new race question : how the census counts multiracial individuals / Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perlmann, Joel.

Waters, Mary C.

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--United States--Census--Methodology.

Multiracial people.

Multiracial people--United States--Statistics.

Minorities--United States--Statistics.

Minorities.

Statistics.

Census.

Methodology.

United States--Census--Methodology.

United States.

Genre:

Census data.

Physical Description:

xiv, 398 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, [2002]

Contents:

Part I What Do We Know from Counting Multiracials?

Chapter 1 Racial Identities in 2000: the Response to the Multiple-Race Response Option / Reynolds Farley 33

Chapter 2 Does it Matter How We Measure? Racial Classification and the Characteristics of Multiracial Youth / David R. Harris 62

Chapter 3 Mixed Race and Ethnicity in California / Sonya M. Tafoya 102

Part II How Much Will it Matter?

Chapter 4 Back in the Box: the Dilemma of Using Multiple-Race Data for Single-Race Laws / Joshua R. Goldstein, Ann J. Morning 119

Chapter 5 Inadequacies of Multiple-Response Race Data in the Federal Statistical System / Roderick J. Harrison 137

Chapter 6 The Legal Implications of a Multiracial Census / Nathaniel Persily 161

Part III A Multiracial Future?

Chapter 7 American Indians: Clues to the Future of Other Racial Groups / C. Matthew Snipp 189

Chapter 8 Census Bureau Long-Term Racial Projections: Interpreting Their Results and Seeking Their Rationale / Joel Perlmann 215

Chapter 9 Recent Trends in Intermarriage and Immigration and Their Effects on the Future Racial Composition of the U.S. Population / Barry Edmonston, Sharon M. Lee, Jeffrey S. Passel 227

Part IV The Politics of Race Numbers

Chapter 10 History, Historicity, and the Census Count by Race / Matthew Frye Jacobson 259

Chapter 11 What Race Are You? / Werner Sollors 263

Chapter 12 Counting by Race: the Antebellum Legacy / Margo J. Anderson 269

Chapter 13 The Origins of Official Minority Designation / Hugh Davis Graham 288

Chapter 14 Lessons from Brazil: the Ideational and Political Dimensions of Multiraciality / Melissa Nobles 300

Chapter 15 Reflections on Race, Hispanicity, and Ancestry in the U.S. Census / Nathan Glazer 318

Chapter 16 Multiracialism and the Administrative State / Peter Skerry 327

Chapter 17 Multiple Racial Identifiers in the 2000 Census, and Then What? / Jennifer L. Hochschild 340

Chapter 18 Race in the 2000 Census: a Turning Point / Kenneth Prewitt 354

Appendix Bridging from Old to New 363

Chapter 19 Comparing Census Race Data Under the Old and the New Standards / Clyde Tucker, Steve Miller, Jennifer Parker 365.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

0871546574

OCLC:

49525908