Summary of Classified The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America by David E. Bernstein |
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| Author:
| Davison, Justin |
| ISBN: | 979-8-8416-9784-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2022 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $11.99 |
Book Description:
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DISCLAIMER The purpose of this book is to serve as a thorough overview of the original book rather than to in any way replace it. This is an independent author-publication that was written by Justin Davison and it provides a full summary of the book.
It seems reasonable that official racial and ethnic categories cause Americans to feel uneasy. Still, they are a part of everyday life in America. There are boxes to check if you are black, white, Asian, Hispanic, or Native...
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DISCLAIMER
The purpose of this book is to serve as a thorough overview of the original book rather than to in any way replace it.
This is an independent author-publication that was written by Justin Davison and it provides a full summary of the book.
It seems reasonable that official racial and ethnic categories cause Americans to feel uneasy. Still, they are a part of everyday life in America. There are boxes to check if you are black, white, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American when applying for jobs, mortgages, government contracts, admittance to universities, citizenship, and many other things.
Classified analyzes the consistency, logic, and justice of the categories while revisiting the remarkable history of American racial classifications. As an illustration,
Even though Pakistani, Chinese, and Filipino Americans are very different in culture, looks, religion, and other ways, should they all be lumped together?
Why are Americans not permitted by the government to identify as bi-or multi-racial?
*How did the government decide that a Yemini Muslim immigrant with dark skin and a burka should be categorized as generically white but a Spaniard with blond hair and blue eyes should be categorized as Hispanic and treated as a member of a minority group?
Why? Why is it that the government mandates that biomedical researchers categorize study subjects according to the recognized racial categories, even if these categorizations lack any scientific foundation?
The American system of racial classification is becoming even more arbitrary and nonsensical in a society that is becoming more diversified with high rates of intergroup marriage. Additionally, it is hazardous because of the threat that rising ethnonationalism poses to democracy globally. According to Classified, it is finally time to think about doing away with formal racial categorization and replacing it with the separation of race and state.