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What is your race? the census and our flawed efforts to classify Americans

Title
What is your race? [electronic resource] : the census and our flawed efforts to classify Americans / Kenneth Prewitt.
Author
Prewitt, Kenneth.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2013.

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Description
1 online resource (xiii, 271 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
What is your race? (Online)
Alternative Title
What is your race? (Online)
Subject
  • Ethnicity > United States > Statistics
  • Demography > United States
  • United States > Census > History
  • United States > Population > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction and overview -- Classification before counting: the statistical races -- The compromise that made the republic and the nation's first statistical race -- Race science captures the prize, the U.S. Census -- How many white races are there? -- Racial justice finds a policy tool -- When you have a hammer: statistical races misused -- Pressures mount -- The problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of the color line as it intersects the nativity line -- Where are we exactly? -- Getting from where we are to where we need to be.
LCCN
2012037528
OCLC
ssj0000888358
Author
Prewitt, Kenneth.
Title
What is your race? [electronic resource] : the census and our flawed efforts to classify Americans / Kenneth Prewitt.
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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