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A portrait of America
2014,2019
Overview
Portrait of America describes our nation's changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Celebrated authorJohn Iceland covers various topics, including America's historical demographic growth; the American family today; gender inequality; economic well-being; immigration and diversity; racial and ethnic inequality; internal migration and residential segregation; and health and mortality. The discussion of these topics is informed by several sources, including an examination of household survey data, and by syntheses of existing published material, both quantitative and qualitative. Iceland discusses the current issues and controversies around these themes, highlighting their role in everyday debates taking place in Congress, the media, and in American living rooms. Each chapter includes historical background, as well as a discussion of how patterns and trends in the United States compare to those in peer countries.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ Equality
/ Families
/ Family
/ health
/ historical demographic growth
/ history
/ Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions
/ Poverty
/ Race discrimination -- United States
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
/ sociology in the twenty-first century series
/ U.S.A
/ United States Social conditions
/ USA
ISBN
9780520278189, 0520278194, 0520278186, 9780520278196, 0520959108, 9780520959101
