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Contains 10,500 names. Records for six counties, namly Golaid, refugio, San Patricio, Matagords, Milam and Wharton, were lost.

Every census misses some people, but those who are poor, male, urban, black, and Hispanic are most likely not to be counted. In 1980 and 1990, big city mayors complained that census undercounts were depriving their communities of their correct representation in Congress and of their fair share of state and federal dollars. The mayors filed lawsuits to demand recounts and statistical corrections to the census. Harvey Choldin tells the story of the...

A collection of newspaper, magazine, and journal articles that examine the population of the United States as represented in the 2000 census, discussing what it is and how it may be developing.

In the most comprehensive analysis of race, class and ethnicity yet attempted, Yehudi O. Webster challenges the whole notion of classification put forward by both government and academics. The Racialization of America's central argument is that to first classify citizens as "blacks" and "whites" and then describe their relations based on this division violates basic logic and creates an inevitably incoherent and self-defeating system of "race relations."...

The New American Reality presents a compelling portrait of today's America. Taking as his starting point the past four censuses, Farley offers a definitive analysis of life in the United States in the 1990s, a country strikingly different from what it was forty years ago. The social trends that have so transformed the nation were kindled in the 1960s, a watershed decade for American civil rights. The New American Reality describes the activism, federal...

Contains aging-related population and housing data from the 1990 census, including sample data weighted to represent the total population, as well as 100% counts and unweighted sample counts for total persons and housing units. Data is arranged hierarchically by state down to the census tract/block numbering level.

This lively interdisciplinary book on complex households in six U.S. ethnic groups uniquely combines rich ethnographic description conveying the sights and smells of fieldwork with theory-linked overviews and Census 2000 data. It explores interactions of household structure, ethnicity and gender, also illuminating factors affecting formation and dissolution of complex households, which are increasingly important as family and ethnic diversity - and...