Constructing "race" and "ethnicity" in America : category-making in public policy and administration /

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What do we mean in the U.S. today when we use the terms ""race"" and ""ethnicity""? What do we mean, and what do we understand, when we use the five standard race-ethnic categories: White, Black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic? Most federal and state dat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yanow, Dvora
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©2003.
Temas:
Group identity > United States.
Race.
Ethnicity.
Identité collective > États-Unis.
Ethnicité.
ethnicity.
race (group of people)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnicity
Group identity
Race
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Ethnische Beziehungen
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Laying the groundwork : giving a(n) (ac)count. 1. Constructing categories : naming, counting, science, and identity
  • 2. Toward an American categorical "science" of race and ethnicity : OMB Directive No. 15
  • Part II. Making race-ethnicity through public policies. 3. Color, culture, country : race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census
  • 4. Identity choices? : agency policies and individual resistance
  • Part III. Making race-ethnicity through administrative practices. 5. Ethnogenesis by the numbers, ethnogenesis by "eyeballing"
  • 6. Constructing race-ethnicity through social science research : managing workplace diversity
  • Part IV. Telling identities : the contemporary legacy. 7. Public policies as identity stories : American race-ethnic discourse
  • 8. Changing (ac)counting practices : meditation on a problem.

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