What is your race? : the census and our flawed efforts to classify Americans /

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America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side? Does it have a different &qu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prewitt, Kenneth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Ethnicity > United States > Statistics.
Demography > United States.
Ethnicité > États-Unis > Statistiques.
Démographie > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Census
Demography
Ethnicity
Population
United States > Census > History.
United States > Population > History.
United States
History
Statistics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and overview
  • Classification before counting: the statistical races
  • The compromise that made the republic and the nation's first statistical race
  • Race science captures the prize, the U.S. Census
  • How many white races are there?
  • Racial justice finds a policy tool
  • When you have a hammer: statistical races misused
  • Pressures mount
  • The problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of the color line as it intersects the nativity line
  • Where are we exactly?
  • Getting from where we are to where we need to be.

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