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What Is Your Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
Kenneth Prewitt
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Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBC; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
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 "race" line--the nativity line--separating the native born from the foreign born? You might expect to answer these and similar questions with the government's "statistical races." Not likely, observes Kenneth Prewitt, who shows why the way we count by race is flawed. Prewitt calls for radical change. The nation needs to move beyond a ... Read more
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 "race" line--the nativity line--separating the native born from the foreign born? You might expect to answer these and similar questions with the government's "statistical races." Not likely, observes Kenneth Prewitt, who shows why the way we count by race is flawed. Prewitt calls for radical change. The nation needs to move beyond a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
595g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691157030
SKU
V9780691157030
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About Kenneth Prewitt
Kenneth Prewitt is the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University. His books include The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization. He served as director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001.
Reviews for What Is Your Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 "In one of the best discussions of the social construction of race and the U.S. Census Bureau's role in that social construction that this reviewer has seen, Prewitt goes way beyond the typical discussion by demonstrating the policy implications of the social construction and shifting definitions of race... This detailed history and ... Read more