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The authors would like to thank the Russell Sage Foundation and the Center for Immigration, Population and Public, Policy at the University of California, Irvine for generous research support on which this chapter is based. This chapter was partially completed while Frank D. Bean was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and Jennifer Lee was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences with generous financial support provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Grant #2000-5633. A previous version of this chapter was presented as a paper at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University in April 2002.
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Lee, J., Bean, F.D., Batalova, J. et al. Immigration and the black-white color line in the United States. Rev Black Polit Econ 31, 43–76 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12114-003-1003-x
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