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Race Counts: Racial and Ethnic Data on the U.S. Census and the Implications for Tracking Inequality

Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl, Brandon A. Jackson, Steve Garner Orcid Logo

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 1 - 13

Swansea University Author: Steve Garner Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/2332649217742869

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This article is a critical review of racial and ethnic categories on the U.S. Census with a focus on how the census categories affect opportunities to track racial and ethnic inequality. The authors summarize how motivations behind the census categories changed from a historical basis in controlling...

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Published in: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
ISSN: 2332-6492 2332-6506
Published: SAGE Publications 2018
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