Social Statistics and the City : Report of a Conference Held in Washington, D. C., June 22-23, 1967

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1968. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased as well as the front and rear wrappers, staple in the upper portion of the front of the wrapper, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find! White wrappers with red lettering on the front. Extremely scarce! 186 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! "As far back as 1955 a leading American demographer demonstrated that a substantial proportion of the Negro population had not been counted in the 1950 Census. According to Ansley J. Coale's estimate, 11 percent of all nonwhites in the United States were not enumerated at that time. However, Coale's work received little attention outside the community of professional demographers. After the 1960 Census, additional work was undertaken to estimate the degree of underenumeration of the nonwhite population. At this time, however, the climate was more favorable to a wider dissemination of the findings. During the previous decade social scientists had paid relatively little attention to the American Negro, but in the early 1960's interest had mounted rapidly...." ---- from the Introduction.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.