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What Is "Your" Race? : The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans /
"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 differe...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.