What Is "Your" Race? : : The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans / / Kenneth Prewitt.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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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