Deracializing Social Statistics

Problems in the Quantification of Race

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9751111
AutoresTukufu Zuberi (University of Pennsylvania, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen568
Número1
Páginas172-185
Fecha de publicación2000-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716200568001013
OpenAlexW4254388942
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas63
Referencias citadas17

Race is usually defined as an individual attribute fixed at birth and is employed by researchers as a variable with potential for causing change in some other aspect of that same individual. When an individual's race can change (as in Brazil), race is not an attribute but a dynamic characteristic dependent on other social circumstances. In the United States, an individual's race cannot change and thus is considered an individual attribute. As such, social statisticians may have measured racial classification correctly. The major error is in how race has been interpreted. The author suggests a new language to express things that our current language handles inadequately. This new language attempts to increase the efficiency of communication about the statistical analysis of race

Econometrics · Race (biology · Social statistics · Sociology · Statistics · Variable (mathematics · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Computer Science · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender Studies · Mathematics · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse