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What Is “Your” Race?: The Census and Our Flawed, Prewitt Hardcover+=

Book Details Title: What Is “Your” Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Class Item Condition: New Author: Kenneth Prewitt ISBN 10: 0691157030 Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN 13: 9780691157030 Published On: 2013-07-21 SKU: 4444-WLY-9780691157030 Binding: Hardcover Language: english Edition: List Price: – At AwesomeBooks we believe that good quality and speed of service is what pleases our customers and according to this we have a product guarantee on all our books. All used books sold by AwesomeBooks: Will be clean, not soiled or stained. All pages will be present and undamaged. Books will be free of page markings. Some pages may be slightly dog-eared through previous use. The spine may show some creasing through previous use. Ultimately we would never send any book we would not pick up and read ourselves. All new books sold by AwesomeBooks: Will be completely new, sourced from the publisher. Wrapped carefully to prevent damage or curling of book edges. 100% money back guarantee If you are not satisfied for any reason, simply drop us an email and we will give you a 100% refund upon returning the item. If you are not happy then neither are we. If your order has not be reached you within a maximum of 21 days please contact us and we will respond immediately to help. Return Policy At AwesomeBooks, we believe our customers should feel free to order any of our products in the knowledge that they can return anything back within 30 days of purchasing an item for any reason. We will not make it awkward, if you want to return something then all you have to do is ask! Simply drop us an email to the address given on your order confirmation email or login to your paypal account used for payment and send us an email from there. For defects or problems caused before receipt of an item we will of course provide full instructions on how to return the item to us. For other issues (perhaps you did not like a product or it did not live up to expectations), we are happy to refund all costs but require the buyer to pay the return postage cost. Once you drop us an email requesting a return, we will let you know the precise return method quickly and conveniently.

What Is “Your” Race? by Kenneth Prewitt

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What Is “Your” Race? – 9780691173566

What Is “Your” Race? Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans Author(s): Kenneth Prewitt Format: Paperback Publisher: Princeton University Press, United States Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 9780691173566, 978-0691173566 Synopsis 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 born from the foreign born? You might expect to answer these and similar questions with the government’s “statistical races.” Not likely, observes Kenneth Prewitt, who shows why the way we count by race is flawed. Prewitt calls for radical change. The nation needs to move beyond a race classification whose origins are in discredited eighteenth-century race-is-biology science, a classification that once defined Japanese and Chinese as separate races, but now combines them as a statistical “Asian race.” One that once tried to divide the “white race” into “good whites” and “bad whites,” and that today cannot distinguish descendants of Africans brought in chains four hundred years ago from children of Ethiopian parents who eagerly immigrated twenty years ago. Contrary to common sense, the classification says there are only two ethnicities in America–Hispanics and non-Hispanics. But if the old classification is cast aside, is there something better? What Is Your Race? clearly lays out the steps that can take the nation from where it is to where it needs to be. It’s not an overnight task–particularly the explosive step of dropping today’s race question from the census–but Prewitt argues persuasively that radical change is technically and politically achievable, and morally necessary.

Kenneth Prewitt What Is “Your” Race? (Hardback)

Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy?. Who is on which side?. Not likely, observes Kenneth Prewitt, who shows why the way we count by race is flawed.

What is Your Race? : The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans,…

What is Your Race? : The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans, Hardcover by Prewitt, Kenneth, ISBN 0691157030, ISBN-13 9780691157030, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Prewitt (public affairs, Columbia University) explores the history of the concept of statistical races in data gathering for the US Census and explains why the concept is flawed. He argues for dropping the question ‘What is your race’ from the Census entirely, and instead asking questions about language, national origins, and the national origins of parents. A 15-page appendix offers a comparative perspective on gathering data on the racial makeup of populations in Brazil, France, and Israel. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()