This title features international mix of contributors. It presents disputed topic.Based on a conference co-hosted by CERI, INED and the Group for Study and Fight Against Discrimination, these essays explore the questions of whether race and ethnicity are scientific categories or purely political ones and whether precise definitions of group boundaries based on ethnic and racial categories are needed in the West.
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Based on conference co-hosted by CERI, INED and Group for Study and Fight Against Discrimination, this title includes essays that explore the questions of whether race and ethnicity are scientific categories or purely political ones and whether precise definitions of group boundaries based on ethnic and racial categories are needed in the West.
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Introduction; D.Lacorne; Never Precise, Always Political: Ethnic and Racial Data in the United States; P.Skerry; 'Ethnic Group' and the Population Census in Great Britain: Mission Impossible?; P.Ratcliffe; Classification of the Population With a Foreign Background in the Netherlands; M.Alders; The Census Counts, The Census Classifies; K.Prewitt; Color Denominations and Statistical Categorization; J.L.Petruccelli; Mutliracial Individuals and the US Census; J.Perlman; On the Classification of Subnations; M.Bulmer; Making Sense of Pluralism: Race, Ethnicity and Public Policy; R.Ballard; Registering Ethnicity: The Dilemmas of a Positive Action Policy; H.Van Amersfoot; Back in the Box: The Dilemma of Using Multiple-Race Data for Single-Race Laws; J.Goldstein & A.Morning; Using 'Ethnic Origin' Census Data in Canada: A Selective Overview of Current Applications; R.Bourhis; Canada's Cultural Census Questions: Meeting the Requirements of Multiculturalism and Employment Equity Policies; P.White, J.Badets & V.Renaud.
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9781403965790
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Palgrave Macmillan
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234 mm
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156 mm
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UP, 05
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Engelsk
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304
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