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...
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crunicaliforniap:10.1525/esr.2003.26.2.1 2023-08-27T04:03:43+02:00 Ethnic and Racial Definitions as Manifestations of American Public Policy Welch, Ashton Wesley 2003 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 en eng University of California Press Ethnic Studies Review volume 26, issue 2, page 1-26 ISSN 1555-1881 journal-article 2003 crunicaliforniap https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2003.26.2.1 2023-08-04T13:14:27Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper aleut University of California Press (via Crossref) Ethnic Studies Review 26 2 1 26 |
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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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Ethnic and Racial Definitions as Manifestations of American Public Policy |
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