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America by the numbers : a field guide to the U.S. population / William H. Frey, Bill Abresch, and Jonathan Yeasting.
- Title
- America by the numbers : a field guide to the U.S. population / William H. Frey, Bill Abresch, and Jonathan Yeasting.
- Author
- Frey, William H.
- Publication
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2001.
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- Description
- xiv, 222 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Easy-to-read text, tables, and graphs explain a vast amount of population data; including information about racial conflict, class division, health, schooling, family life, crime, and political participation.
- Subject
- United States > Population > Statistics
- Genre/Form
- Statistics
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Generations : popular vanguards -- Sexes : gender and sexuality -- Peoples : race, ethnicity, and identity -- Immigrants : crossing borders -- Movers : mixing and division with America's borders -- Classes : wealth and poverty -- Workers : labor's continuing necessity -- Families : renegotiating norms -- Students : schoolbooks and skills -- The elderly : age and the graying of America -- The healthy : illness and well-being -- Criminals : violence and confinement -- Voters : the demography of democracy.
- ISBN
- 1565846419 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^00068122^
- OCLC
- 45556184
- SCSB-10838920
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library