Social Sciences - Methodology, Demography - United States, Ethnic & Minority Studies - United States
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Overview
"The New Race Question is a wide-ranging examination of what we know about racial enumeration, the likely effects of the census change, and possible policy implications for the future. Contributor Reynolds Farley reviews the way in which the census has traditionally measured race and shows that although the numbers of people choosing more than one race are not high at the national level, they can make a real difference in the population totals at the county level. The book then takes up the debate over how the change in measurement will affect national policy in arenas that rely on race counts, especially in civil rights law, but also in health, education, and income reporting. A technical appendix provides a useful manual for bridging old census data to new." The book concludes with a discussion of the politics of racial enumeration. Hugh Davis Graham examines recent history to ask why some groups were determined to be worthy of special government protections and programs, while others were not. Posing the volume's ultimate question, Jennifer Hochschild asks whether the official recognition of multiracials marks the beginning of the end of federal use of race data, and whether that is a good or bad thing for society?Synopsis
This volume is derived from a September 2000 conference held at the Levy Economics Institute, bringing together scholars from sociology, demography, political science, history, and American studies, and government officials from several important federal agencies, to debate the past and future of counting and classifying Americans by race and to assess the implications of the new multi-race response option included in the 2000 census. Nineteen contributions are arranged into sections exploring what we know from counting multiracials, the significance of these findings, the possibilities of a multiracial future, and the politics of race numbers. For researchers, scholars, teachers, and students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR
Book Details
Published
October 1, 2002
Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation
Pages
398
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780871546579