American Diversity -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Multicultural Insights from the Study of Demography by Nancy A. Denton and Stewart E. Tolnay -- Part I: Population: The Initial Numbers -- 1. The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity: Some Examples from Demography by Mary C. Waters -- 2. Race and Ethnic Population Projections: A Critical Evaluation of Their Content and Meaning by Charles Hirschman -- Part II: Basic Demographic Processes and Diversity -- 3. The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States by Douglas S. Massey -- 4. Racial and Ethnic Fertility Differentials in the United States by Gray Swicegood and S. Philip Morgan -- 5. Mortality Differentials in a Diverse Society by Richard G. Rogers -- Part III: Life Cycle and Diversity -- 6. Housing Segregation: Policy Issues for an Increasingly Diverse Society by Michael J. White and Eileen Shy -- 7. Education and Employment in a Diverse Society: Generating Inequality through the School-to-Work Transition by V. Joseph Hotz and Marta Tienda -- 8. Ethnic and Racial Intermarriage in the United States: Old and New Regimes by Gillian Stevens and Michael K. Tyler -- 9. Sixty-five Plus in the U.S.A. by Cynthia M. Taeuber -- Part IV: Implications and Conclusions -- 10. Rethinking American Diversity: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges for Racial and Ethnic Demography by Hayward Derrick Horton -- Contributors -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.