PART I. WHAT DO WE KNOW FROM COUNTING MULTIRACIALS?

Racial identities in 2000: the response to the multiple-race response option / Reynolds Farley

Does it matter how we measure? racial classification and the characteristics of multiracial youth / David R. Harris

Mixed race and ethnicity in California / Sonya M. Tafoya

PART II. HOW MUCH WILL IT MATTER?

Back in the box: the dilemma of using multiple-race data for single-race laws / Joshua R. Goldstein, Ann J. Morning

Inadequacies of multiple-response race data in the federal statistical system / Roderick J. Harrison

Legal implications of a multiracial census / Nathaniel Persily

PART III. A MULTIRACIAL FUTURE?

American Indians: clues to the future of other racial groups / C. Matthew Snipp

Census bureau long-term racial projections: interpreting their results and seeking their rationale / Joel Perlmann

Recent trends in intermarriage and immigration and their effects on the future racial composition of the U.S. population / Barry Edmonston, Sharon M. Lee, Jeffrey S. Passel

PART IV. THE POLITICS OF RACE NUMBERS

History, historicity, and the census count by race / Matthew Frye Jacobson

What race are you? / Werner Sollors

Counting by race: the antebellum legacy / Margo J. Anderson

Origins of official minority designation / Hugh Davis Graham

Lessons from Brazil: the ideational and political dimensions of multiraciality / Melissa Nobles

Reflections on race, Hispanicity, and ancestry in the U.S. census / Nathan Glazer

Multiracialism and the administrative state / Peter Skerry

Multiple racial identifiers in the 2000 census, and then what? / Jennifer L. Hochschild

Race in the 2000 census: a turning point / Kenneth Prewitt

APPENDIX: Bridging from old to new

Comparing census race data under the old and the new standards / Clyde Tucker, Steve Miller, Jennifer Parker.

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