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: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

PrewittKenneth:

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.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prewitt, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

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

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.