American Diversity and the 2000 Census. / Nathan Glazer.
by Glazer, Nathan; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 13Environment. Publisher: Public Interest, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): African Americans | Apportionment (Election law) | Asian Americans | Assimilation (Sociology) | Census | Ethnicity -- Classification | Hispanic Americans | Indians of North America | Minorities | Pluralism (Social sciences) | Race -- Classification | Racially mixed people | WhitesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American racial and ethnic diversity...first, the continued presence of what appears to be an almost permanent lower caste composed of the black race; and second, the ongoing process of immigration of races and peoples from all quarters of the globe, who seem, within generations, to merge into a common American people." (PUBLIC INTEREST) Through the analysis of the census' history and structure, the author contends that there has been an assimilation and integration of American diversity.
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Originally Published: American Diversity and the 2000 Census, Summer 2001; pp. 3-18.
"The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American racial and ethnic diversity...first, the continued presence of what appears to be an almost permanent lower caste composed of the black race; and second, the ongoing process of immigration of races and peoples from all quarters of the globe, who seem, within generations, to merge into a common American people." (PUBLIC INTEREST) Through the analysis of the census' history and structure, the author contends that there has been an assimilation and integration of American diversity.
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