The diversity paradox : immigration and the color line in twenty-first century America / Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean.

By: Lee, Jennifer, 1968- [author.]Contributor(s): Bean, Frank D [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2010]Copyright date: 2010Description: 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781610446617Subject(s): Immigrants -- United States -- History | United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects | United States -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Diversity paradox : immigration and the color line in twenty-first century America.DDC classification: 304.8/730089 LOC classification: JV6475 | .L38 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Pt. I. Historical background, theoretical framework, and sociodemographic context. -- Introduction : immigration and the color line in America -- Theoretical perspectives on color lines in the United States -- What is this person's race? The census and the construction of racial categories -- Immigration and the geography of the new ethnoracial diversity / with James D. Bachmeier and Zoya Gubernskaya -- Pt. II. Individual experiences of diversity : from multiraciality to multiracial identification. -- The cultural boundaries of ethnoracial status and intermarriage -- What about the children? Interracial families and ethnoracial identification -- Who is multiracial? The cultural reproduction of the one-drop rule -- From racial to ethnic status : claiming ethnicity through culture -- Pt. III. The empirical and policy significance of diversity : generalization and paradox. -- Ethnoracial diversity, minority-group threat, and boundary dissolution : clarifying the diversity paradox / with James D. Bachmeier -- Conclusion : the diversity paradox and beyond (Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-224) and index.

Pt. I. Historical background, theoretical framework, and sociodemographic context. -- Introduction : immigration and the color line in America -- Theoretical perspectives on color lines in the United States -- What is this person's race? The census and the construction of racial categories -- Immigration and the geography of the new ethnoracial diversity / with James D. Bachmeier and Zoya Gubernskaya -- Pt. II. Individual experiences of diversity : from multiraciality to multiracial identification. -- The cultural boundaries of ethnoracial status and intermarriage -- What about the children? Interracial families and ethnoracial identification -- Who is multiracial? The cultural reproduction of the one-drop rule -- From racial to ethnic status : claiming ethnicity through culture -- Pt. III. The empirical and policy significance of diversity : generalization and paradox. -- Ethnoracial diversity, minority-group threat, and boundary dissolution : clarifying the diversity paradox / with James D. Bachmeier -- Conclusion : the diversity paradox and beyond (Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose).

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