Racial Mismatch: The Divergence Between Form and Function in Data for Monitoring Racial Discrimination of Hispanics

A primary justification for collecting U.S. racial statistics is the need to monitor racial discrimination. This article aims to show how analyses of Hispanics-who may officially be of any race-tend to miss discrimination based on racial appearance by relying on data that instead capture racial self-identification, a different aspect of race that often does not correspond. Copyright (c) 2010 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Roth, Wendy D.
Published in:	Social Science Quarterly. - Southwestern Social Science Association, ISSN 0038-4941. - Vol. 91.2010, s1, p. 1288-1311
Publisher:	Southwestern Social Science Association

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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