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.

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

Minorities.

Ethnicity--United States--Congresses.

Ethnicity.

United States--Population--Congresses.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

United States--Race relations--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

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:

""American Diversity""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Multicultural Insights from the Study of Demography by Nancy A. Denton and Stewart E. Tolnay""; ""Part I: Population: The Initial Numbers""; ""1. The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity: Some Examples from Demography by Mary C. Waters""; ""2. Race and Ethnic Population Projections: A Critical Evaluation of Their Content and Meaning by Charles Hirschman""; ""Part II: Basic Demographic Processes and Diversity""

""3. The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States by Douglas S. Massey""""4. Racial and Ethnic Fertility Differentials in the United States by Gray Swicegood and S. Philip Morgan""; ""5. Mortality Differentials in a Diverse Society by Richard G. Rogers""; ""Part III: Life Cycle and Diversity""; ""6. Housing Segregation: Policy Issues for an Increasingly Diverse Society by Michael J. White and Eileen Shy""; ""7. Education and Employment in a Diverse Society: Generating Inequality through the School-to-Work Transition by V. Joseph Hotz and Marta Tienda""

""8. Ethnic and Racial Intermarriage in the United States: Old and New Regimes by Gillian Stevens and Michael K. Tyler""""9. Sixty-five Plus in the U.S.A. by Cynthia M. Taeuber""; ""Part IV: Implications and Conclusions""; ""10. Rethinking American Diversity: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges for Racial and Ethnic Demography by Hayward Derrick Horton""; ""Contributors""; ""Name Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Subject Index""; ""A""

""B""""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

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:

0-7914-8853-5

0-585-49016-3

OCLC:

54028164