{"id":37187,"date":"2014-08-28T00:59:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T00:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37187"},"modified":"2014-08-28T00:59:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T00:59:21","slug":"race-statistics-how-to-get-from-where-we-are-to-where-we-should-be-a-rejoinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37187","title":{"rendered":"Race statistics: how to get from where we are to where we should be: a rejoinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2014.932413\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Race statistics: how to get from where we are to where we should be: a rejoinder<\/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 1852-1856<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2014.932413\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2014.932413<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.sipa.columbia.edu\/faculty\/kenneth-prewitt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kenneth Prewitt<\/strong><\/a>, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s race statistics are inadequate to the policy challenges of the twenty-first century, especially for social justice and immigrant incorporation policy. But inertial forces \u2013 technical and political \u2013 complicate change. Overcome technical barriers by taking advantage of an experiment fielded in 2010. To miss that opportunity would be a huge failure. Political barriers are more difficult. Start with what is familiar \u2013 more emphasis on national origin \u2013 and add flexibility and granularity, both are politically desirable. Introduce change without disrupting the existing policy practices. Phase in improvements gradually, taking advantage of generational turnover. One generation changes the statistical basis for policy. The next generation, which has grown up with the new statistics, implements the policy changes. An example of how this works is found in the multiple-race option introduced in the 2000 census but probably not put to policy use until after the 2030 census.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/rejoinder\" target=\"_blank\">rejoinder<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/01419870.2014.932413\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race statistics: how to get from where we are to where we should be: a rejoinder Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1852-1856 DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2014.932413 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University America&#8217;s race statistics are inadequate to the policy challenges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[461,2544],"class_list":["post-37187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-kenneth-prewitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37187","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=37187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}