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Title America becoming : racial trends and their consequences. Volume I / Neil J. Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, editors.

Imprint Washington : National Academies Press, ©2001.
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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover -- Front Matter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contents Volume II -- Terminology Used in This Report -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-Being, by Race -- 3 An Overview of Racial and Ethnic Demographic Trends -- 4 Hispanics in a Multicultural Society: A New American Dilemma? -- 5 Trends Among American Indians in the United States1 -- 6 Political Trends and Electoral Issues of the Asian Pacific American Population -- 7 Contemporary Immigration and the Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity
8 The Changing Meaning of Race9 Racial Attitudes and Relations at the Close of the Twentieth Century -- 10 Racial Trends and Scapegoating: Bringing in a Comparative Focus -- 11 Affirmative Action: Legislative History, Judicial Interpretations, Public Consensus -- 12 Test-Score Trends Along Racial Lines, 1971 to 1996: Popular Culture and Community Academic Standards -- 13 Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas -- 14 Geography and Opportunity -- APPENDIX A Acronyms -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language English.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States -- Race relations -- Research -- Congresses.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- Research -- Congresses.
United States -- Population -- Statistics -- Congresses.
Minorities -- Social conditions -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.
Minorities -- Economic conditions -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations -- Research
Population
Race relations -- Research
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Added Author Smelser, Neil J., editor.
Wilson, William J., 1935- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfX7jj9tqBJfpKkxhJdQq
Mitchell, Faith, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Smelser, Neil J. America Becoming. Washington : National Academies Press Jan. 2001 9780309068383
ISBN 9780309504553 (electronic bk.)
0309504554 (electronic bk.)
9780309068383
030906838X
1282081497
9781282081499
9786612081491
661208149X
0309172934
9780309172936

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