America's Americans: Population Issues in U.S. Society and Politics

Introduction; America's Americans: Population Issues in U.S. Society and Politics / Iwan Morgan

Pt. 1. Overviews of Population Change

1. Three Americas: Reflections on America's Americans in Regional Context / William Frey

2. Through the Prism of Demographics: America's Political Scene / Rhodes Cook

Pt. 2. Socioeconomic and Cultural Contexts of Population Issues

3. Population Matters in Native America / Joy Porter

4. Inventing the Matron: American Women Redefine Middle Age / Jay S. Kleinberg

5. From Exile Community to 'Hy'-Society; Cuban American Literature and Cultural Identity / Annabel Cox

6. Continuing Significance of Race and Ethnicity in the Melting Pot / Natasha Kumar Warikoo

7. Living Together - Living Apart: Racial and Ethnic Integration in Metropolitan Neighborhoods, 1970-2000 / David Fasenfest and Jason Booza

8. Integrating New Americans / Bill Ong Hing

9. Demographic Change and Concentrated Poverty in Rural America / Kenneth M. Johnson and Daniel T. Lichter

Pt. 3. Politics and Public Policy of Population Change

10. Social Change, Families, and Values: Morality Politics in Contemporary America / Christopher J. Bailey

11. Native American Self-Determination: From Nixon to Reagan / Dean J. Kotlowski

12. Race, Class, Age and Punitive Segregation: Prisons and Prison Populations in the Contemporary United States / Vivien Miller

13. Shifting Politics of Immigration Reform / Andrew Wroe

14. Cuban Adjustment Act and Immigration from Cuba / Jessica Gibbs

15. Urban Electoral Coalitions in an Age of Immigration: Time and Place in the 2001 and 2005 Los Angeles Mayoral Primaries / Raphael J. Sonenshein and Mark H. Drayse

16. California and the Third Great Demographic Transition: Immigrant Incorporation, Ethnic Change, and Population Aging, 1970-2030 / Dowell Myers.