LECTURE AND PANEL DISCUSSION

Does (Should) Racial Counting Have a Future in America?

Kenneth Prewitt

Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University

February 23, 2009, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Starr Auditorium
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Belfer Building, 2nd Floor
Harvard Kennedy School

ABSTRACT:

Since 1790 race statistics have been central to various policy regimes across American history. But the turn to immigrant driven diversity, identify fueled multiculturalism, and majority-minority demographics have rendered obsolete a taxonomy rooted in 18th century natural science. What today we are learning from racial statistics is not what we need to be learning.

WITH PANELISTS:

Duana Fullwiley

Anthropology, Harvard University

Jennifer L. Hochschild

Government, Harvard University

Mary C. Waters

Sociology, Harvard University

MODERATED BY:

Sheila Jasanoff

Harvard Kennedy School


Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Department of Sociology.

The promotional poster for this talk is available here as a PDF file.

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