Schematic State - Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census

A comparison of the political development of census questions about race, demonstrating how ideas and politics shape racial boundaries.

List of contents

1. Invitation; 2. Orientation; 3. Transnational biological racialism; 4. The death and resurrection of race; 5. The multicultural moment; 6. The multiracial moment; 7. The future of counting by race.

About the author

Debra Thompson is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2010 and served as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts in 2010–11. In 2011 she received the prestigious Governor General of Canada's Academic Gold Medal, and her 2008 article 'Is Race Political?' won the Canadian Political Science Association's John McMenemy Prize for the best article published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.

Summary

A comparison of the political development of census questions about race, demonstrating how ideas and politics shape racial boundaries. The book is written for social scientists in political science, sociology and history, and for anyone interested in the politics of race and the nature of state power.

Product details

• Authors: Debra Thompson, Debra (Northwestern University Thompson, Debra Adebra E. E. Thompson, Thompson Debra
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781107130982
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13098-2
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Public Administration, Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, Public administration / Public policy