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For immediate release: March 16, 2001
Media advisory:
Lecture on racial and political issues in U.S. census
WHO: Peter Skerry, associate professor, Department of Government, Claremont McKenna College; nonresident senior fellow, Governmental Studies, Brookings Institution
WHAT: Lecture on "Who’s Afraid of the Undercount? Race, Politics, and the Census." Free and open to the public.
WHEN: Monday, March 26, 2001 at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bowl 2, Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus
Peter Skerry’s research at the Brookings Institution focuses on immigration policy and the politics of the U.S. census. Skerry has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and director of Washington programs for UCLA’s Center for American Politics and Public Policy. He was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and also served as legislative director for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
His writings have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general-interest publications, including Society, The New Republic, Slate, National Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. His book, "Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority," was awarded the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Skerry’s most recent book is "Counting on the Census? Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics," published in 2000 by the Brookings Institution Press.
This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Survey Research Center. It is free and open to the public.
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