Debra Thompson

The Schematic State

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781107578784
• ISBN-10: 1107578787
• Artikelnr.: 53213142

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.