Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie

By Tukufu Zuberi

Book Overview

A hard-hitting investigation of the racist uses of statistics--now in paperback

Tukufu Zuberi offers a concise account of the historical connections between the development of the idea of race and the birth of social statistics. Zuberi describes how race-differentiated data are misinterpreted in the social sciences and asks searching questions about the ways racial statistics are used. He argues that statistical analysis can and must be deracialized, and that this deracialization is essential to the goal of achieving social justice for all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816639094
• ISBN13: 9780816639090
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"