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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Beyond Hansen's Law -- 1. Hyphen Nation -- 2. Golden Door, Silver Screen -- 3. Old World Bound -- 4. The Immigrant's Bootstraps, and Other Fables -- 5. I Take Back My Name -- 6. Our Heritage Is Our Power -- 7. Whose America (Who's America)? -- Coda: Ireland at JFK -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The long history of the US making racial counts via census methods is traced, & some moral issues are considered. The political nature of this practice is described, & concerns about the misuse of such racial counts are balanced against the necessity of making such counts to ensure civil rights. The role of the state in racial formation is explored, along with that of science. The need to consider the socially constructed nature of racial categories & their variation with shifts in historical context is emphasized. Nathan Glazer's (2002) proposal for reducing the census racial categorization to a two-tiered distinction between "black" & "not black" is criticized as overly simplistic & divisive, particularly given the history of black struggle & black-white relations in the US. 1 Reference. K. Hyatt Stewart

The long history of the US making racial counts via census methods is traced, & some moral issues are considered. The political nature of this practice is described, & concerns about the misuse of such racial counts are balanced against the necessity of making such counts to ensure civil rights. The role of the state in racial formation is explored, along with that of science. The need to consider the socially constructed nature of racial categories & their variation with shifts in historical context is emphasized. Nathan Glazer's (2002) proposal for reducing the census racial categorization to a two-tiered distinction between "black" & "not black" is criticized as overly simplistic & divisive, particularly given the history of black struggle & black-white relations in the US. 1 Reference. K. Hyatt Stewart