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

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Multicultural Insights from the Study of Demography / Stewart E. Tolnay / Nancy A. Denton -- Ch. 1 Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity: Some Examples from Demography / Mary C. Waters -- Ch. 2 Race and Ethnic Population Projections: A Critical Evaluation of Their Content and Meaning / Charles Hirschman -- Ch. 3 New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States / Douglas S. Massey -- Ch. 4 Racial and Ethnic Fertility Differentials in the United States / S. Philip Morgan / Gray Swicegood -- Ch. 5 Mortality Differentials in Diverse Society / Richard G. Rogers -- Ch. 6 Housing Segregation: Policy Issues for an Increasingly Diverse Society / Michael J. White / Eileen Shy -- Ch. 7 Education and Employment in a Diverse Society: Generating Inequality through the School-to-Work Transition / V. Joseph Hotz / Marta Tienda -- Ch. 8 Ethnic and Racial Intermarriage in the United States: Old and New Regimes / Gillian Stevens / Michael K. Tyler -- Ch. 9 Sixty-five Plus in the U.S.A. / Cynthia M. Taeuber -- Ch. 10 Rethinking American Diversity: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges for Racial and Ethnic Demography / Hayward Derrick Horton.

"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 morality differentials; segregation; work and education; intermarriage; aging; and racism."--Jacket.

English.

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