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Contents Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 PART I WHAT DO WE KNOW FROM COUNTING MULTIRACIALS? Chapter 1 RACIAL IDENTITIES IN 2000: THE RESPONSE TO THE MULTIPLE-RACE RESPONSE OPTION 33 Reynolds Farley Chapter 2 DOES IT MATTER HOW WE MEASURE? RACIAL CLASSIFICATION AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTIRACIAL YOUTH 62 David R. Harris Chapter 3 MIXED RACE AND ETHNICITY IN CALIFORNIA 102 Sonya M. Tafoya PART II HOW MUCH WILL IT MATTER? Chapter 4 BACK IN THE BOX: THE DILEMMA OF USING MULTIPLE-RACE DATA FOR SINGLE-RACE LAWS 119 Joshua R. Goldstein and Ann J. Morning Chapter 5 INADEQUACIES OF MULTIPLE-RESPONSE RACE DATA IN THE FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM 137 Roderick J. Harrison Chapter 6 THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF A MULTIRACIAL CENSUS 161 Nathaniel Persily PART III A MULTIRACIAL FUTURE? Chapter 7 AMERICAN INDIANS: CLUES TO THE FUTURE OF OTHER RACIAL GROUPS 189 C. Matthew Snipp CONTENTS viii Chapter 8 CENSUS BUREAU LONG-TERM RACIAL PROJECTIONS: INTERPRETING THEIR RESULTS AND SEEKING THEIR RATIONALE 215 Joel Perlmann Chapter 9 RECENT TRENDS IN INTERMARRIAGE AND IMMIGRATION AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE FUTURE RACIAL COMPOSITION OF THE U.S. POPULATION 227 Barry Edmonston, Sharon M. Lee, and Jeffrey S. Passel PART IV THE POLITICS OF RACE NUMBERS Chapter 10 HISTORY, HISTORICITY, AND THE CENSUS COUNT BY RACE 259 Matthew Frye Jacobson Chapter 11 WHAT RACE ARE YOU? 263 Werner Sollors Chapter 12 COUNTING BY RACE: THE ANTEBELLUM LEGACY 269 Margo J. Anderson Chapter 13 THE ORIGINS OF OFFICIAL MINORITY DESIGNATION 288 Hugh Davis Graham Chapter 14 LESSONS FROM BRAZIL: THE IDEATIONAL AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF MULTIRACIALITY 300 Melissa Nobles Chapter 15 REFLECTIONS ON RACE, HISPANICITY, AND ANCESTRY IN THE U.S. CENSUS 318 Nathan Glazer Chapter 16 MULTIRACIALISM AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE 327 Peter Skerry Chapter 17 MULTIPLE RACIAL IDENTIFIERS IN THE 2000 CENSUS, AND THEN WHAT? 340 Jennifer L. Hochschild Chapter 18 RACE IN THE 2000 CENSUS: A TURNING POINT 354 Kenneth Prewitt Appendix BRIDGING FROM OLD TO NEW 363 Chapter 19 COMPARING CENSUS RACE DATA UNDER THE OLD AND THE NEW STANDARDS 365 Clyde Tucker, Steve Miller, and Jennifer Parker Index 391 ...

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