American Diversity: A Demographic Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

by Denton, Nancy A.; Tolnay, Stewart E.

• ISBN13: 9780791453988
• ISBN10: 0791453987
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: Multicultural Insights from the Study of demography	1	(24)
Nancy A. Denton
Stewart E. Tolnay
Part I. Population: The Initial Numbers
The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity: Some Examples from Demography	25	(26)
Mary C. Waters
Race and Ethnic Population Projections: A Critical Evaluation of Their Content and Meaning	51	(24)
Charles Hirschman
Part II. Basic Demographic Processes and Diversity
The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States	75	(24)
Douglas S. Massey
Racial and Ethnic Fertility Differentials in the United States	99	(30)
Gray Swicegood
S. Philip Morgan
Mortality Differentials in a Diverse Society	129	(30)
Richard G. Rogers
Part III. Life Cycle and Diversity
Housing Segregation: Policy Issues for an Increasingly Diverse Society	159	(26)
Michael J. White
Eileen Shy
Education and Employment in a Diverse Society: Generating Inequality Through the School-to-Work Transition	185	(36)
V. Joseph Hotz
Marta Tienda
Ethnic and Racial Intermarriage in the United States: Old and New Regimes	221	(22)
Gillian Stevens
Michael K. Tyler
Sixty-five Plus in the U.S.A.	243	(18)
Cynthia M. Taeuber
Part IV. Implications and Conclusions
Rethinking American Diversity: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges for Racial and Ethnic Demography	261	(18)
Hayward Derrick Horton
Contributors	279	(2)
Name Index	281	(6)
Subject Index	287