Colored, Black, Negro, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, African American. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the language policies governing the selection and application of the racial classifiers used by the United States Census for American residents of African ancestry over the past 200 years. The historical linguistic investigation is supplemented by a corpus of letters sent by the American public concerning not only the government's controversial policies of racial designation, but also its methods of racial classification.
Detailed demographic information about the evolving multicultural diversity of the US society is provided, along with a critical political discussion of the ways in which these sociological developments may effect the ways Americans define themselves.
| ISBN: | 9783631534557 |
| Publication date: | 22nd March 2005 |
| Author: | I M Nick |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wiss |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 229 pages |
| Series: | European University Studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature |
| Genres: |
Language: reference and general Dialect, slang and jargon Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Language teaching theory and methods History Society and culture: general Sociology and anthropology Behaviourism, Behavioural theory |
Colored, Black, Negro, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, African American. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the language policies governing the selection and application of the racial classifiers used by the United States Census for American residents of African ancestry over the past 200 years.
Census and Consensus? features in the following genres: Language: reference and general, Dialect, slang and jargon, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Language teaching theory and methods, History, Society and culture: general, Sociology and anthropology, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory
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Census and Consensus? was written by I M Nick and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wiss
Census and Consensus? has 229 pages
Yes it is part of European University Studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature series