{"id":37170,"date":"2014-08-27T20:27:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T20:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37170"},"modified":"2014-08-27T23:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T23:13:32","slug":"the-collection-of-race-based-data-in-the-usa-a-call-for-radical-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37170","title":{"rendered":"The collection of race-based data in the USA: a call for radical change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2014.932407\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The collection of race-based data in the USA: a call for radical change<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/rers20\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/37\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014<\/a><br \/>\nSpecial Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review<br \/>\npages 1839-1846<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2014.932407\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2014.932407<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:P.J.Aspinall@kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peter Aspinall<\/strong><\/a>, Emeritus Reader in Population Health<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li>Carter, Greg,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26258\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(New York: New York University Press, 2013), 288 pages.<\/li>\n<li>Prewitt, Kenneth,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=30855\" target=\"_blank\"><em>What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), 296 pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two important new books by <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/letsci\/history\/faculty\/carter.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Carter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/new.sipa.columbia.edu\/faculty\/kenneth-prewitt\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Prewitt<\/a> provide detailed historical perspectives on how understandings of race and race categories have evolved since the founding of the republic. Prewitt focuses on an analysis of racial classification in the US census \u2013 the so-called \u2018statistical races\u2019 \u2013and its changing role in US policy, culminating in recommendations for radical change. Carter takes as his theme population mixing across the races, offering a positive, even celebratory, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26258\" target=\"_blank\">but little known account of the moments and movements that have praised mixing<\/a>. As pressures mount on the \u2018statistical races\u2019 in the late twentieth century, Prewitt uses the political space opened up by these debates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=30855\" target=\"_blank\">to offer fundamental changes to US methods of ethno-racial data collection<\/a>, including the removal of these questions from the census. The jury is in recess for further deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>Read the review of both books\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/01419870.2014.932407\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collection of race-based data in the USA: a call for radical change Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1839-1846 DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2014.932407 Peter Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, United Kingdom Carter, Greg,\u00a0The United States of the United Races: A Utopian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,33,459,8,26,394,20],"tags":[461,1972,2544,61,1877],"class_list":["post-37170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-greg-carter","tag-kenneth-prewitt","tag-peter-aspinall","tag-peter-j-aspinall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}