On the United States' census form, American citizens are told they may list any ethnic ancestries with which they identify, but are instructed to "mark one only" in the question on race. Joel Perlmann asserts that it is in the public interest to allow people to declare themselves as having...

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...