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.

Introduction
The Census Race Classification: Is It Doing Its Job? - Kenneth Prewitt
The Significance of Ethno-Racial Mixing
The 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 Deaux
Establishing the Denominator: The Challenges of Measuring Multiracial, Hispanic, and Native American Populations - Wendy D. Roth
The 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 Qian
Change across the Generations after Immigration
Finding the Lost Generation: Identifying Second-Generation Immigrants in Federal Statistics - Douglas S. Massey
Social Mobility across Immigrant Generations: Recent Evidence and Future Data Requirements - Van Tran
Tracking a Changing America across the Generations after Immigration - Tomás Jiménez
Identifying the Later-Generation Descendants of U.S. Immigrants: Issues Arising from Selective Ethnic Attrition - Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo
Diversities within Major Populations
Conceptualizing 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 Hook
Counting America's First Peoples - Carolyn A. Liebler
Accurately Counting Asian Americans Is a Civil Rights Issue - Jennifer Lee, Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Janelle Wong
Some Ramifications of Diversity
Racial 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