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Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1. The Structuring of Hispanic Ethnicity: Theoretical and Historical Considerations -- 2. The Hispanic Population in Numbers: Census Definitions in Historical Perspective -- 3. A Demographic and Socioeconomic Profile of the Hispanic Population: Persistence, Diversity, and Change over Two Decades -- 4. Immigration -- 5. Geographic Distribution, Internal Migration, and Residential Segregation (written in collaboration with Douglas S. Massey) -- 6. Marriage, Family, and Household

Solving problems of race relations in the United States requires avoiding binary ethnoracial classifications and understanding the nature, extent, and consequences of today's diversity resulting from immigration. Recent demographic change has involved not only growth in the size of the nonwhite U.S. population but also increases in the number of new ethnoracial groups. Modest socioeconomic improvements have recently occurred among most nonwhite groups, and the rise in the number of different groups has led to some positive changes (i.e., boosting intermarriage and multiracial identification, blurring color lines among ethnoracial groups, and fostering creativity and economic growth) without diminishing social cohesion and solidarity. However, the benefits of multigroup diversity appear not to have reached many Americans who have less felt the social and economic benefits of free trade, globalization, and immigration. This underscores the need for universal policies that transcend identity- and grievance-based politics and provide security and benefits for all Americans.

Income diff'ials in expected fertility are examined among a sample of 348 Mexican Amer couples. After considering alternative hyp's relevant to the income-fertility relation, a decomposition of the income variable is proposed as a preliminary strategy for dealing with the problem of measuring income posed by econ theory. It is observed that the components of income relate to fertility in diff ways, & under conditions of later age-at-marriage in opposite directions. The pattern of results reinforces the notion that soc processes of a reference group nature may underlie fertility behavior, a possibility which needs to be better taken into account in a SE theory of fam formation. AA.