Shades of Citizenship
Subtitle: Race and the Census in Modern Politics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: July 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780804740593
Subjects: Census data; Civil rights & citizenship; Ethnography; Population & demography; Racism & racial discrimination; Ethnic Studies - General; Minority Studies - General; Current Affairs; Sociology; Brazil; USA; Public Affairs & Administration; Social Science / Minority Studies; American
First sentence: Obtaining racial data would seem to be a straightforward process: the census asks a question; statisticians, demographers, and other properly trained professionals tabulate the responses.