What is your race?: |
Subtitle:
the census and our flawed efforts to classify Americans.
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Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > Social Science > Sociology
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Author:
Prewitt, Kenneth
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ISBN 13:
9780691157030
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Price:
$ $29.95.
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Publication Year:
2013
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Publisher Info
Andrew Brewer,
The University Press Group (US) Ltd,Key Contact Information
Andrew Brewer
Managing Director
Bill Kennedy
Director, Avicenna Partnership Ltd
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.
Bill Kennedy Avicenna Partnership Ltd. P.O. Box 501 Whitney Oxfordshire OX28 9JL +44 7802 244457 [email protected]
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