What Is "Your" Race? : : The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans / / Kenneth Prewitt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Prewitt, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 5 line illus. 3 tables.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Preface
• Part I. What Are Statistical Races?
• Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
• Chapter 2. Classification before Counting: The Statistical Races
• Part II. Policy, Statistics, and Science Join Forces
• Chapter 3. The Compromise That Made the Republic and the Nation's First Statistical Race
• Chapter 4. Race Science Captures the Prize, the U.S. Census
• Chapter 5. How Many White Races Are There?
• Part III. When You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail
• Chapter 6. Racial Justice Finds a Policy Tool
• Chapter 7. When You Have a Hammer: Statistical Races Misused
• Part IV. The Statistical Races under Pressure, and a Fresh Rationale
• Chapter 8. Pressures Mount
• Chapter 9. The Problem of the Twenty-first Century Is the Problem of the Color Line as It Intersects the Nativity Line
• Part V. What We Have Is Not What We Need
• Chapter 10. Where Are We Exactly?
• Chapter 11. Getting from Where We Are to Where We Need to Be
• Appendix: Perspectives from Abroad-Brazil, France, Israel
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index