What Census Data Miss about American Diversity, Richard Alba and Kenneth Prewit

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Introduction

     

Editors' Note

878

2.9

1

The Census Race Classification: Is it Doing its Job?

8598

28.7

38

I: The Significance of Ethno-Racial Mixing

     

The Rise of Mixed Parentage: A Sociological and Demographic Phenomenon to Be Reckoned with

5615

18.7

34

Ethnic/racial Identity: Fuzzy Categories and Shifting Positions

4448

14.8

10

Establishing the Denominator: the Challenges of Measuring Multiracial, Hispanic, and Native American Populations

4494

15.0

20

The Generational Locus of Multiraciality and its Implications for Racial Self-identification

5306

17.7

30

Multiracial Identification and Racial Gaps: A Work in Progress

5400

18

33

Boundary Blurring? Racial Identification among the Children of Interracial Couples

6187

20.6

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II: Change across the Generations after Immigration

     

Finding the Lost Generation: Identifying Second-generation Immigrants in Federal Statistics

4132

13.8

2

 Social Mobility Across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements

5469

18.2

17

Tracking a Changing America Across the Generations after Immigration

5140

17.1

7

Identifying the Later-generation Descendants of U.S. Immigrants: Issues Arising from Selective Ethnic Attrition

3531

11.8

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III: Diversities within Major Populations

     

Measuring Hispanic Origin: Reflections on Hispanic Race Reporting

5065

16.9

16

Latinos, Race, and the U.S. Census

5891

19.6

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Estimating the Characteristics of Unauthorized Immigrants Using U.S. Census Data: Combined Sample Multiple Imputation

6537

21.8

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Counting America's First Peoples

4712

15.7

3

Accurately Counting Asian Americans Is a Civil Rights Issue

4722

15.7

6

IV: Some Ramifications of Diversity

     

Racial and Political Dynamics of an Approaching “Majority-minority” United States

5196

17.3

9

Racial Population Projections and Reactions to Alternative News Accounts of Growing Diversity

6183

20.6

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Growing U.S. Ethno-racial Diversity: A Positive or Negative Societal Dynamic?

5489

18.3

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