If a child has a white mother and a black father, then the child is racially...what? How the next Census, to be held in the year 2000, should handle the "multiracial" child will be decided by October. Moreover, every government agency counts races in roughly the same way, and it is the...

This paper stresses that the key to concerns about the progress of second-generation Americans is the fate of the Mexican second generation. It compares several indicators of the advances of second-generation Mexicans to those of non-Hispanic, native-born blacks and non-Hispanic, native-born...