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Constructing Race and Ethnicity in America : Category-making in Public Policy and Administration

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015

Online-Ressource (272 p)

Englisch

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Laying the Groundwork: Giving a(n) (Ac)Count; 1. Constructing Categories: Naming, Counting, Science, and Identity; 2. Toward an American Categorical ""Science"" of Race and Ethnicity: OMB Directive No. 15; Part II. Making Race-Ethnicity Through Public Policies; 3. Color, Culture, Country: Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. Census; 4. Identity Choices? Agency Policies and Individual Resistance; Part 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 Diversity; Part IV. Telling Identities: The Contemporary Legacy; 7. Public Policies as Identity Stories: American Race-Ethnic Discourse; 8. Changing (Ac)Counting Practices: Meditation on a Problem; References; Index

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Constructing ""Race"" and ""Ethnicity"" in America : Category-making in Public Policy and Administration

978-0-7656-0800-0

978-0-7656-0800-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-1-317-47393-0 ( : 187.5 (NL))

HM753 .Y36 2015

305.8/00973     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Ethnicity ; Group identity ; United States ; Race ; Electronic books

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