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Achieving a thorough understanding of the demographic circumstances of the African American population has proven difficult because of serious problems in the underlying data. The problems are not primarily traceable to shifting or ambiguous criteria for membership in the population. A rigid system of racial stratification means that African Americans have known who they are and consistently report their racial status to statistical agencies.
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Preston, S.H., Elo, I.T., Hill, M.E., Rosenwaike, I. (2003). Background and Plan of Study. In: The Demography of African Americans 1930–1990. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0325-3_1
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