Demography is Politics: How We Control Demographic Change

An intellectual journey that turns modern conceptions about population growth and politics on their heads.

Most people assume that vast demographic changes over the next forty years are an unalterable fact of differences in births, deaths, and migration between groups.

That's a mistake. With provocative and persuasive narrative, research and prose, the book will explore how politics can hasten or slow demographic change. Unlike normal notions that culture and religion drive fertility, the book argues that differences in fertility between groups largely reflect different levels of access to social, educational and political resources.

Along the way, she tells stories about Genghis Khan's prolific genetic lineage, why teen motherhood can be a rational decision, why Hispanic women in Arizona have more children that Hispanic women in New Mexico and about individuals who change their race.

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