Title Page
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters
Part I. What Do We Know From Counting Multiracials?
Chapter 1. Racial Identities in 2000: The Response to the Multiple-Race Response Option / Reynolds Farley
Chapter 2. Does It Matter How We Measure? Racial Classification and the Characteristics of Multiracial Youth / David R. Harris
Chapter 3. Mixed Race and Ethnicity in California / 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 / Joshua R. Goldstein and Ann J. Morning
Chapter 5. Inadequacies of Multiple-Response Race Data in the Federal Statistical System / Roderick J. Harrison
Chapter 6. The Legal Implications of a Multiracial Census / Nathaniel Persily
Part III. A Multiracial Future?
Chapter 7. American Indians: Clues to the Future of Other Racial Groups / C. Matthew Snipp
Chapter 8. Census Bureau Long-Term Racial Projections: Interpreting Their Results and Seeking Their Rationale / Joel Perlmann
Chapter 9. Recent Trends in Intermarriage and Immigration and Their Effects on the Future Racial Composition of the U.S. Population / 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 / Matthew Frye Jacobson
Chapter 11. What Race Are You? / Werner Sollors
Chapter 12. Counting By Race: The Antebellum Legacy / Margo J. Anderson
Chapter 13. The Origins of Official Minority Designation / Hugh Davis Graham
Chapter 14. Lessons from Brazil: The Ideational and Political Dimensions of Multiraciality / Melissa Nobles
Chapter 15. Reflections on Race, Hispanicity and Ancestry in the U.S. Census / Nathan Glazer
Chapter 16. Multiracialism and the Administrative State / Peter Skerry
Chapter 17. Multiple Racial Identifiers in the 2000 Census, and Then What? / Jennifer L. Hochschild
Chapter 18. Race in the 2000 Census: A Turning Point / Kenneth Prewitt
Appendix. Bridging from Old to New
Chapter 19. Comparing Census Race Data Under the Old and the New Standards / Clyde Tucker, Steve Miller, and Jennifer Parker
Index