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  • Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change (First Edition)

    “Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change” uses both classic readings and new research on contemporary racial inequality to create a logical progression through the primary issues of race and ethnicity.

  • For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color

    For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color The New York Times 2012-01-13 Mireya Navarro Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about race, with 15…

  • Blood Simple: The politics of miscegenation

    The “Negro problem,” wrote Norman Podhoretz in 1963, would not be solved unless color itself disappeared: “and that means not integration, it means assimilation, it means—let the brutal word come out—miscegenation.”

  • Immigration, Intermarriage, and the Challenges of Measuring Racial/Ethnic Identities

    Immigration, Intermarriage, and the Challenges of Measuring Racial/Ethnic Identities American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1735-1737 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.90.11.1735 Mary C. Waters, M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University This commentary reviews recent demographic trends in immigration and intermarriage that contribute to the complexity of measuring race and ethnicity.…

  • We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity

    We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity Temple University Press January 2000 304 pages 7×10 5 tables 5 figures Paper EAN: 978-1-56639-723-0; ISBN: 1-56639-723-5 edited by Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara and W. Jeffrey Burroughs, Dean of Math and Sciences and Professor of Psychology Brigham Young…

  • The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals

    The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals Russell Sage Foundation October 2002 391 pages Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-657-9, ISBN-10: 0-87154-657-4 Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-658-6, ISBN-10: 0-87154-658-2 Edited by Joel Perlmann, Senior Scholar and Program Director Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University The change in…