What Is "your" Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans

by Kenneth Prewitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691157030
• ISBN13: 9780691157030
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"