By Chris Hansen (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Buried in the debate begun by Lawrence Wright's provocative New Yorker article and continued in the January/February issue of Poverty & Race are two extremely important and related, but nevertheless distinct, questions about the central domestic issue of our time-race. First, should we continue to collect data … [Read more...] about “Race/Ethnicity and Data Collection” by Chris Hansen (March-April 1995 P&R Issue)
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Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter?
Last fall, the House Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel, chaired by Rep. Thomas Sawyer (D-OH), held a series of hearings on modification of the existing racial categories used by the Census and on the larger question of whether it is proper for the government to classify people according to arbitrary distinctions of skin color and ancestry. The issue is of … [Read more...] about Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter?
