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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices -- Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Population Statistics -- 2. Fertility Levels, Differentials, and Trends -- 3. Age at First Birth -- 4. An Examination of Recent Census and Survey Data on Mortality Within the Context of HIV/AIDS -- 5. HIV/AIDS in Light of Death Registration Data: In Search of Elusive Estimates -- 6. Parental Survival and Residential Patterns -- 7. Technical Appraisal of Official South African Life Tables -- 8. Racial Differences in Household Structure

In this timely and hard-hitting volume, Tukufu Zuberi offers a concise account of the historical connections between the development of the idea of race and the birth of social statistics. Zuberi describes the ways race-differentiated data are misinterpreted in the social sciences and asks searching questions about how racial statistics are used."Tukufu Zuberi's critical assessment of the analysis of racial data in Thicker Than Blood is a tour de force. His discussion and evaluation of the use of racial statistics in historical and cross-cultural contexts is original and important. I strongly

The author addresses how, as a scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois transcended disciplinary boundaries and genre by providing answers to questions of racial colonialism and enslavement, the role of theory in social change, and the role of race in the dehumanization of the African, to name only a few. Here, the author offers a critical review of Du Bois's application of sociology to the study of the African diaspora in America in The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. The article gives an overview of Du Bois's sociological research as historical, statistical, demographic, and cultural in nature—the type of research that, Du Bois demanded, must lead to social action.

The author addresses how, as a scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois transcended disciplinary boundaries & genre by providing answers to questions of racial colonialism & enslavement, the role of theory in social change, & the role of race in the dehumanization of the African, to name only a few. Here, the author offers a critical review of Du Bois's application of sociology to the study of the African diaspora in America in The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. The article gives an overview of Du Bois's sociological research as historical, statistical, demographic, & cultural in nature -- the type of research that Du Bois demanded, must lead to social action. 9 References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2004 The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

In the US, race is usually defined as an individual attribute fixed at birth & is employed by researchers as a variable with potential for causing change in some other aspect of that same individual. However, in some societies, eg, Brazil, an individual's race can change; thus, race is not an attribute but a dynamic characteristic dependent on other social circumstances. The primary error made by social statisticians is not in the measurement of racial classification, but in the interpretation of race. Here, a new language to express race is suggested in order to increase the efficiency of communication about the statistical analysis of race. 28 References. Adapted from the source document.