Prewitt What Is "Your" Race?

The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4679-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Prewitt, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables ix

Preface xi

Part I What Are Statistical Races?

Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview 3

Chapter 2 Classification before Counting: The Statistical Races 14

Part II Policy, Statistics, and Science Join Forces

Chapter 3 The Compromise That Made the Republic and the Nation's First Statistical Race 31

Chapter 4 Race Science Captures the Prize, the U.S. Census 45

Chapter 5 How Many White Races Are There? 61

Part III When You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail

Chapter 6 Racial Justice Finds a Policy Tool 83

Chapter 7 When You Have a Hammer: Statistical Races Misused 105

Part IV The Statistical Races under Pressure, and a Fresh Rationale

Chapter 8 Pressures Mount 129

Chapter 9 The Problem of the Twenty-first Century Is the Problem of the Color Line as It Intersects the Nativity Line 151

Part V What We Have Is Not What We Need

Chapter 10 Where Are We Exactly? 171

Chapter 11 Getting from Where We Are to Where We Need to Be 183

Appendix: Perspectives from Abroad--Brazil, France, Israel 209

Notes 221

Bibliography 251

Index 263

Über Autor(innen)

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.