America by the numbers: a field guide to the U.S. population
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 222 p. ill., maps : 24 cm |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments xi
Is Demography Destiny? xiii
1. GENERATIONS: Popular Vanguards
1.1. Population Growth: Demography Is Destiny 2
1.2. The Architecture of Population 5
1.3. The Greatest Generation 6
1.4. The Lucky Generation 7
1.5. The Baby Boom s Demography: Strength in Numbers? 9
1.6. Generation X 10
1.7. Generation Y 13
2. SEXES: Gender and Sexuality
2.1. Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors, Pink Collars 16
2.2. Sex x Race 18
2.3. Out of the Home: Into the House? 20
2.4. Women in Time 23
2.5. Feminist Values and the Fear of Feminism 24
2.6. Counting in the Closet:
Does It Matter How Many Americans Are Gay? 27
2.7. Lavender Ghettos and the Rights Closet 28
2.8. From Mattachine to Stonewall to Queer 31
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3. PEOPLES: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
3.1. African Americans: Race, Racism, and the Census 34
3.2. A Revolution in White Attitudes 36
3.3. White People: Molding and Melting Nationalities 39
3.4. Native Americans: Demography and Decisions 40
3.5. What Is Hispanic ? 43
3.6. Asian American Diversity 44
3.7. America s Developing Diversity 47
4. IMMIGRANTS: Crossing Borders
4.1. The History of Immigration: Close the Door Behind You 50
4.2. Origins: From North to South 53
4.3. Destinations: Gateway Cities and Immigrant Clusters 54
4.4. A Land of Many Tongues: The Politics of Speaking 56
4.5. Diaspora Politics 59
4.6. Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Yearning to Breathe Free 60
4.7. Illegal Immigration: American Fantasies of the South 62
4.8. Emigration: Migrant Laborers and Belabored Emigres 65
4.9. Getting Through the Door 66
5. MOVERS: Mixing and Division
within America s Borders
5.1. Imagining the City 68
5.2. Contemporary Urban Growth and Demographic Balkanization 71
5.3. Sprawl and Suburban Desire 72
5.4. Beyond Black Cities and White Suburbs 75
5.5. Multiethnic Metros and the Diversity Myth 76
5.6. Today s Domestic Migrant Magnets 79
5.7. The Black Return South 80
5.8. The Young and the Restless 83
5.9. Technopolises: Today s Emerging Industry Towns 84
5.10. Elderly Movers and Stayers 86
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6. CLASSES: Wealth and Poverty
6.1. How Americans Classify Themselves 90
6.2. The Rich Poor Divide 93
6.3. Wealth and the Wealthy 94
6.4. Poverty and Policy 97
6.5. The Working Poor and the Production of Poverty 98
6.6. Poor Beginnings 100
7. WORKERS: Labor s Continuing Necessity
7.1. Changing Collars 102
7.2. Women at Work 104
7.3. From Field Hands to Harvesters 107
7.4. A Postindustrial Society with Factories 108
7.5. From Assembly Line to Sales Floor 111
7.6. A New Economy? 112
7.7. Fighting for a Piece of the Pie 114
7.8. The Right to Work South 116
8. FAMILIES: Renegotiating Norms
8.1. Whatever Happened to Marriage? 120
8.2. The Mythical Normal Family 122
8.3. Cohabitation as an Alternative to Marriage 125
8.4. Single Parent Households 126
8.5. Interracial Marriage 129
8.6. Growing Up Is Different These Days 130
8.7. Abortion 133
8.8. Teen Pregnancy 134
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9. STUDENTS: Schoolbooks and Skills
9.1. Is America Behind? 138
9.2. Staying In, Dropping Out 141
9.3. The Alternatives: Private Schooling and Learning at Home 142
9.4. Minorities and College 145
9.5. Enrollment Roller Coaster 146
10. THE ELDERLY: Age and the
Graying of America
10.1. What Is Elderly ? 148
10.2. The Widow Gap 149
10.3. The Last White Majority? 151
10.4. Elderly Poverty and the Weight of History 152
10.5. From Work to Retirement and Back 155
10.6. Where the Boomers Will Retire 156
10.7. How to Stay Healthy 158
10.8. Neglected Violence 159
11. THE HEALTHY: Illness and Well Being
11.1. American Lives: Long and Healthy 162
11.2. Medicine s Charge 165
11.3. Infant Mortality: Wealth Brings Health 166
11.4. The Demography of Destiny: Genetic Diseases 168
11.5. People with AIDS 171
11.6. The Uninsured 172
11.7. Smoking: The Apolitical Consequences of Inhaling 174
11.8. Disabled America 177
11.9. Evading Death: New Threats, New Tactics 178
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12. CRIMINALS: Violence and Confinement
12.1. Guns and the American Dream 180
12.2. America the Violent? 182
12.3. Murder Rates Vary by Region 183
12.4. But Things Aren t Getting Worse 184
12.5. An Eye for an Eye: Capital Punishment in America 187
12.6. The Prison Boom 189
12.7. Punishment: Life Without the Vote 190
12.8. Justice and the Color Line 192
12.9. Prisons as Factories 193
12.10. Violence Against Women 195
12.11. The Violence of Hate 196
13. VOTERS: The Demography of Democracy
13.1. The Making of the American Electorate 198
13.2. Who Are the Democrats? 201
13.3. Who Are the Republicans? 203
13.4. Who Remains Independent? 204
13.5. Are We Growing Apart? 206
13.6. 90210 and the Buying of the Presidency 208
13.7. Voter Apathy 211
13.8. Class Participation: Grade: F 212
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