Thicker than blood
Subtitle: how racial statistics lie
By: Tukufu Zuberi.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Ethnology -- United States -- Research -- Statistical methods; African Americans -- Research -- Statistical methods; Eugenics -- United States; United States -- Race relations -- Research -- Statistical methods; United States -- Population -- Research -- Statistical methods
Description: "In this volume, Tukufu Zuberi offers a concise account of the historical connections between the development of the idea of race and the birth of social statistics. Zuberi describes the ways race-differentiated data is misinterpreted in the social sciences and asks questions about the ways racial statistics are used, such as: What is the value of knowing the income disparities or differences in crime and incarceration rates between different racial groups?

When these data are available, what should the principles be guiding their dissemination, interpretation, and analysis?"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-184) and index.