This volume of The ANNALS addresses common misconceptions about American diversity that stem from issues surrounding race and ethnicity in census data-misconceptions such as the belief in the imminence of a majority-minority society, when in reality there are rising numbers of Americans being raised in mixed majority-minority families.

IntroductionThe Census Race Classification: Is It Doing Its Job? - Kenneth PrewittThe Significance of Ethno-Racial MixingThe Rise of Mixed Parentage: A Sociological and Demographic Phenomenon to Be Reckoned With - Richard Alba, Brenden Beck, and Duygu Basaran Sahin Ethnic/Racial Identity: Fuzzy Categories and Shifting Positions - Kay DeauxEstablishing the Denominator: The Challenges of Measuring Multiracial, Hispanic, and Native American Populations - Wendy D. RothThe Generational Locus of Multiraciality and Its Implications for Racial Self-Identification - Ann Morning and Aliya Saperstein Multiracial Identification and Racial Gaps: A Work in Progress - Jenifer L. Bratter Boundary Blurring? Racial Identification among the Children of Interracial Couples - Daniel T. Lichter and Zhenchao QianChange across the Generations after ImmigrationFinding the Lost Generation: Identifying Second-Generation Immigrants in Federal Statistics - Douglas S. MasseySocial Mobility across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements - Van TranTracking a Changing America across the Generations after Immigration - Tomás JiménezIdentifying the Later-Generation Descendants of U.S. Immigrants: Issues Arising from Selective Ethnic Attrition - Brian Duncan and Stephen J. TrejoDiversities within Major PopulationsConceptualizing and Measuring Hispanic Origin: Reflections on Hispanic Race Reporting - Sonya R. Porter and C. Matthew Snipp Latinos, Race, and the U.S. Census - Edward Telles Estimating the Characteristics of Unauthorized Immigrants using U.S. Census Data: Combined Sample Multiple Imputation - Randy Capps, James D. Bachmeier, and Jennifer Van HookCounting America's First Peoples - Carolyn A. LieblerAccurately Counting Asian Americans Is a Civil Rights Issue - Jennifer Lee, Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Janelle WongSome Ramifications of DiversityRacial and Political Dynamics of an Approaching "Majority-Minority" United States - Maureen A. Craig, Julian M. Rucker, and Jennifer A. Richeson Racial Population Projections and Reactions to Alternative News Accounts of Growing Diversity - Dowell Myers and Morris Levy Growing U.S. Ethno-racial Diversity: A Positive or Negative Societal Dynamic? - Frank D. Bean