| What Is Your Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans Subjects: Ethnicity -- United states -- Statistics; United states -- Census -- History; United states -- Population -- History; Demography -- United states; A historical overview of the census race question--and a bold proposal for eliminating it Kenneth Prewitt is the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University. His books include The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization . He served as director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001. |