Thicker than blood

how racial statistics lie

Paperback, 193 pages

English language

Published Dec. 16, 2001 by University of Minnesota Press.

ISBN:
978-0-8166-3908-3
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OCLC Number:
46320974

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"In this volume, Tukufu Zuberi offers a concise account of the historical connections between the development of the idea of race and the birth of social statistics. Zuberi describes the ways race-differentiated data is misinterpreted in the social sciences and asks questions about the ways racial statistics are used, such as: What is the value of knowing the income disparities or differences in crime and incarceration rates between different racial groups?

When these data are available, what should the principles be guiding their dissemination, interpretation, and analysis?"--BOOK JACKET.

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Subjects

  • Ethnology -- United States -- Research -- Statistical methods
  • African Americans -- Research -- Statistical methods
  • Eugenics -- United States
  • United States -- Race relations -- Research -- Statistical methods
  • United States -- Population -- Research -- Statistical methods