What is "your" race?: the census and our flawed efforts to classify americans
Auteur :
Prewitt, Kenneth
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691157030
Date de publication :
21 juil. 2013
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
595 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side? Does it have a different "race" line--the nativity line--separating the native