ISBN:
9781317473930
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1317473930
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 252 pages)
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illustrations
Parallel Title:
Print version Constructing "race" and "ethnicity" in America
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Group identity United States
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Ethnicity United States
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USA
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Race
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Group identity
;
Ethnicity
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Ethnicity
;
Race
;
Group identity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Ethnicity
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Group identity
;
Race
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
United States
;
USA
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
What do we mean in the U.S. today when we use the terms ""race"" and ""ethnicity""? What do we mean, and what do we understand, when we use the five standard race-ethnic categories: White, Black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic? Most federal and state data collection agencies use these terms without explicit attention, and thereby create categories of American ethnicity for political purposes. Davora Yanow argues that ""race"" and ""ethnicity"" are socially constructed concepts, not objective, scientifically-grounded variables, and do not accurately represent the real world. She joins the
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I.Laying the groundwork : giving a(n) (ac)count.1.Constructing categories : naming, counting, science, and identity2.Toward an American categorical "science" of race and ethnicity : OMB Directive No. 15Part II.Making race-ethnicity through public policies.3.Color, culture, country : race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census4.Identity choices? : agency policies and individual resistancePart III.Making race-ethnicity through administrative practices.5.Ethnogenesis by the numbers, ethnogenesis by "eyeballing"6.Constructing race-ethnicity through social science research : managing workplace diversityPart IV.Telling identities : the contemporary legacy.7.Public policies as identity stories : American race-ethnic discourse8.Changing (ac)counting practices : meditation on a problem.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index. - Print version record
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