Constructing "Race" and "Ethnicity" in America Category-Making in Public Policy and Administration

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 us...

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Main Author: Yanow, Dvora
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Armonk Routledge 2003
Taylor and Francis
M.E. Sharpe
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition:1
Subjects:
Ethnicity
Group identity
Race
Race & Ethnic Studies
United States
Er Ica
Race Ethnic
administration
Related Valuative Gradations
Race Ethnic Identity
Vice Versa
Race Ethnic Diversity
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
identities
public
Cape Verdean
Practitioner Journals
Race Ethnic Differences
Race Ethnic Categories
categories
bureau
Public Administration
Pacific Islander Americans
group
policy
Black English
OMB Directive
EEOC Policy
Bl Ac
Black English Vernacular
practices
Race Ethnic Data
Black Racial Groups
Policy Issues
administrative
Japanese American Parent
census
OMB Definition
Race Ethnic Identification
Race Ethnic Group
ISBN:0765608006, 0765608014, 9780765608017, 9780765608000
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Table of Contents:
  • 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