Susan Saulny, New York Times; Counting by Race Can Throw Off Some Numbers:
"The chameleon-like quality of Ms. López-Mullins’s racial and ethnic identification might seem trivial except that statistics on ethnicity and race are used for many important purposes. These include assessing disparities in health, education, employment and housing, enforcing civil rights protections, and deciding who might qualify for special consideration as members of underrepresented minority groups."
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
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