TY - JOUR AU - Parrado, Emilio A. AB - 744 The Journal of American History September 2001 Shoemaker's monograph is an examination Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the of the social and demographic processes that History of Ethnicity in the United States. By made this comeback possible. She begins her Clara E. Rodriguez. (New York: New York monograph with an overview of American In­ University Press, 2000. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, dian population history, focusing most of her $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-7546-2. Paper, $19.00, attention on data from the twentieth century. ISBN 0-8147-7547-0.) Next, she presents the twentieth-century de­ mographic histories of five different tribes: In this thorough and eclectic book, Clara E. Rodriguez elaborates on how racial identity is Seneca, Cherokee, Red Lake Ojibway, Yakama, and Navajo. This is a particularly useful dis­ constructed in America. Using the Latino ex­ cussion. Not only does it show the similarities perience to illustrate the highly variable and and differences in tribal demography across context-driven nature of racial identity, Rod­ those disparate cultures; it also reflects the ex­ riguez weaves together diverse methods that include in-depth interviews of Hispanic Amer­ traordinary heterogeneity that one finds in the icans, survey data, a historical analysis of the Native American population. Her choice TI - Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States. By Clara E. Rodríguez. (New York: New York University Press, 2000. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-7546-2. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-8147-7547-0.) JF - The Journal of American History DO - 10.2307/2675257 DA - 2001-09-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/changing-race-latinos-the-census-and-the-history-of-ethnicity-in-the-A0K6SuPNXF SP - 744 EP - 745 VL - 88 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -