Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-252) and index.
Contents:
8. Changing (ac)counting practices : meditation on a problem. 1. Constructing categories : naming, counting, science, and identity -- 2. Toward an American categorical "science" of race and ethnicity : OMB Directive No. 15 -- Part II. Making race-ethnicity through public policies. 3. Color, culture, country : race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census -- 4. Identity choices? : agency policies and individual resistance -- Part III. Making race-ethnicity through administrative practices. 5. Ethnogenesis by the numbers, ethnogenesis by "eyeballing" -- 6. Constructing race-ethnicity through social science research : managing workplace diversity -- Part IV. Telling identities : the contemporary legacy. 7. Public policies as identity stories : American race-ethnic discourse -- 8. Changing (ac)counting practices : meditation on a problem.
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