American Diversity

Nancy A. Denton is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the coauthor, with Douglas S. Massey, of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Stewart E. Tolnay is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms.

"This book addresses the important issue of race and racial composition of the United States in the years to come." — K. V. Rao, Bowling Green State University

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Multicultural Insights from the Study of DemographyNancy A. Denton and Stewart E. Tolnay Part I. Population: The Initial Numbers1. The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity: Some Examples from DemographyMary C. Waters2. Race and Ethnic Population Projections: A Critical Evaluation of Their Content and MeaningCharles HirschmanPart II. Basic Demographic Processes and Diversity3. The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United StatesDouglas S. Massey4. Racial and Ethnic Fertility Differentials in the United StatesGray Swicegood and S. Philip Morgan5. Mortality Differentials in a Diverse SocietyRichard G. Rogers Part III. Life Cycle and Diversity6. Housing Segregation: Policy Issues for an Increasingly Diverse SocietyMichael J. White and Eileen Shy7. Education and Employment in a Diverse Society: Generating Inequality through the School-to-Work TransitionV. Joseph Hotz and Marta Tienda8. Ethnic and Racial Intermarriage in the United States: Old and New RegimesGillian Stevens and Michael K. Tyler9. Sixty-five Plus in the U.S.A.Cynthia M. TaeuberPart IV. Implications and Conclusions10. Rethinking American Diversity: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges for Racial and Ethnic DemographyHayward Derrick HortonContributorsName IndexSubject Index