How Census Undercount Became a Civil Rights Issue and Why It Is Increasingly Important

Lisa Neidert; Reynolds Farley; Jeffrey Morenoff

doi:10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.02

Article Information

vol. 11 no. 1 26-43

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online January 1, 2025.

© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Neidert, Lisa, Reynolds Farley, and Jeffrey Morenoff. 2025. “How Census Undercount Became a Civil Rights Issue and Why It Is Increasingly Important.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(1): 26–43. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.02. Direct correspondence to: Lisa Neidert, at lisan@umich.edu, 909 Northwood Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103, United States; Reynolds Farley, at renf@umich.edu, 807 Asa Gray Drive #306 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, United States; Jeffrey Morenoff, at morenoff@umich.edu, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 735 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Lisa Neidert^a,
Reynolds Farley^b and
Jeffrey Morenoff^c

^aAffiliated with the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, United States
^bThe Otis Dudley Duncan Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan and is affiliated with the Population Studies Center and the Gerald Ford School of Policy, United States
^cThe associate dean for research and policy experiments and professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Policy at the University of Michigan, United States