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What Is Your Race?:
What is your race?:
Subtitle:
the census and our flawed efforts to classify Americans.
Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > Social Science > Sociology
Author:
Prewitt, Kenneth
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780691157030
Price:
USD $29.95.
Publication Year:
2013

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Timothy Wilkins,

Princeton University Press,
41 William Street,
Princeton ,
New Jersey - 08540,
USA
Web: press.princeton.edu

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In one of the best discussions of the social construction of race and the US Census Bureau's role in that social construction that this reviewer has seen, Prewitt (public affairs, Columbia) goes way beyond the typical discussion by demonstrating the policy implications of the social construction and shifting definitions of race. In particular, he argues that the census categories, as innocuous as they seem, shape not only policy but also the very definitions and understandings of race that people use in everyday life.

 

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