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

Publication subTitle :The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans

Author: Prewitt Kenneth  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781400846795

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691157030

Subject: B82 Ethics ( Moral Philosophy );C91 Sociology;C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology;D0 Political Theory

Keyword: 政治理论,社会学,文化人类学、社会人类学,伦理学(道德哲学)

Language: ENG

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Chapter

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

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