Dvora Yanow

Constructing Race and Ethnicity in America (eBook, ePUB)

Category-making in Public Policy and Administration

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work examines what is meant by the terms "race" and "ethnicity" and examines why policy makers continue to use them as if they had some scientific standing. It argues that "race" and "ethnicity" are socially constructed concepts, not objective, scientifically grounded variables.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317473923
• Artikelnr.: 42367330

Autorenporträt

Dvora Yanow is professor and chair of the Department of Public Administration, California State University, Hayward. Her research focus is shaped by an overall interest in the communication of meaning in organizational and policy settings. Her publications include articles on organizational learning from an interpretive-cultural perspective, the role of built space in communicating meaning, and local knowledge in organizational and policy contexts. She is the author of How Does a Policy Mean? Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions (1996) and Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis (2000). Her articles have been published in such journals as Policy Sciences, Administration & Society, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Organization, Organization Science, and the Journal of Management Inquiry. In her nonacademic life, she reads mysteries; practices the piano, violin, and doumbek; folk dances and sings; grows tomatoes and herbs; and walks a fourteen-minute mile.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Laying the Groundwork: Giving a(n) (Ac)Count
Chapter 1 Constructing Categories: Naming, Counting, Science, and Identity
Chapter 2 Toward an American Categorical "Science" of Race and Ethnicity: OMB Directive No. 15
Part 2 Making Race-Ethnicity Through Public Policies
Chapter 3 Color, Culture, Country: Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. Census
Chapter 4 Identity Choices? Agency Policies and Individual Resistance
Part 3 Making Race-Ethnicity Through Administrative Practices
Chapter 5 Ethnogenesis by the Numbers, Ethnogenesis by "Eyeballing"
Chapter 6 Constructing Race-Ethnicity Through Social Science Research: Managing Workplace Diversity
Part 4 Telling Identities: The Contemporary Legacy
Chapter 7 Public Policies as Identity Stories: American Race-Ethnic Discourse
Chapter 8 Changing (Ac)Counting Practices: Meditation on a Problem