Current information about immigrants is given in the periodical Invandrarrapport. Its serious character notwithstanding, I cannot guarantee that it is entirely devoid of silly jokes. University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago will not be just a site for important research in African-American Studies, but will also have as a focus the study of race and U.S. society broadly construed. Given the enormous interaction that race has with other social phenomena, scholars of race are keenly interested in connecting their investigations with those of other topics, such as gender and class. These will be important lines of research within the Center.
Race provides the critical line of cleavage in U.S. society.
Because it provokes invigorating intellectual debate about the future of society, it constitutes a critical research agenda for the entire academy. Approaches to research on race include demography, historical studies, labor market economics, critical theory, survey research, and institutional analyses, to name just a few.