Changing race : Latinos, the census, and the history of ethnicity in the United States /

Changing race : Latinos, the census, and the history of ethnicity in the United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rodriguez, Clara E., 1944-
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, c2000.
Description:	xv, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical America
Subject:	Hispanic Americans -- Census. Hispanic Americans -- Race identity. Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity. Categorization (Psychology) Race -- Social aspects -- United States. Ethnology -- United States. Categorization (Psychology) Ethnology. Hispanic Americans. Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity. Race relations. Race -- Social aspects. United States -- Census. United States -- Race relations. United States. Census data.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4312331

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ISBN:	0814775470 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0814775462 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-263) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Acknowledgments
I. The Fluidity of Race
1. Latinos in the U.S. Race Structure
2. The Idea of Race
3. Stories of Self-Definition
II. Historical Constructions
4. Whites and Other Social Races
5. The Shifting Color Line
6. Race in the Americas
III. Race and the Census
7. The "Other Race" Option
8. Redefining Race in 2000
Appendix A. Data Limitations and the Undercount
Appendix B. The Biological Concept of Race in the United States
Appendix C. A Technical Oversight or Racial Flux?
Appendix D. Free People of Color
Notes
References
Index
About the Author