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.
