Ethnic and Racial Definitions as Manifestations of American Public Policy
Official definitions of race and ethnicity in American law reveal a great deal about public policy in an environment of ethnic pluralism. Despite some ambiguity over who is black or Hispanic or an Aleut, relatively few people fall between the wide cracks in the American patchwork of identity classif...
| Published in: | Ethnic Studies Review |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Press
2003
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2003.26.2.1 http://online.ucpress.edu/esr/article-pdf/26/2/1/107217/esr_2003_26_2_1.pdf |
| Summary: | Official definitions of race and ethnicity in American law reveal a great deal about public policy in an environment of ethnic pluralism. Despite some ambiguity over who is black or Hispanic or an Aleut, relatively few people fall between the wide cracks in the American patchwork of identity classifications. Those cracks, however, tell us a great deal about the ambivalence of the American polity toward ethnicity. |
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