America's changing color lines: Immigration, race/ethnicity, and multiracial identification

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2004, Pages 221-242

  Lee, Jennifer ^a   Beanjenlee, Frank D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African americans; Asians; Assimilation; Diversity; Intermarriage; Latinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344695962     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110519     Document Type: Review

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