- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 271 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- What is your race? (Online)
- Alternative Title
- What is your race? (Online)
- Subject
- 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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