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Counting and Classifying by Race: The American Debate

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Americans are racially classified literally from the cradle to the grave. Their race is recorded on their birth certificate, when they enroll in school, when they apply for a passport, when they apply for jobs, for mortgaes, for university admittance, when they take part in medical experiments, when they are arrested for a crime, when they receive teatment at the hospital, and when they die.

Source: The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville

DOI: 10.3138/ttr.29.1.27

Author: Mary C. Waters

Language: English

Topic: Race, History, and American Society

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W563276423

FWCI: 2.315

Cites: 16

Cited by: 11

Related to: 10