Measuring Race
Why Disaggregating Data Matters for Addressing Educational Inequality

Robert T. Teranishi (Author), Bach Mei Dolly (Author), Cynthia Alcantar (Author), Edward R. Curammeng (Author)

9780807763605

Paperback / softback, published 20 March 2020

240 pages
22.8 x 15.4 x 1.2 cm, 0.335 kg

The United States demography is changing rapidly. How are we capturing these shifts? Do the racial categories that exist accurately represent the individuals who fall into them? Have long-standing categories hindered our understanding of racial inequality? These questions are particularly significant in education, where a precise view of students—who achieves and who requires greater resources—is critical. This volume brings together the expertise of scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the current state of racial heterogeneity, data practice, and educational inequality. They offer recommendations to guide future research, practice, and policy with the goal of better understanding and meeting the needs of our diverse student population in the years to come.

Book Features:

• Contributes both conceptual and practical knowledge toward understanding the relevance of data practices that impact racial inequality—important for both researchers and practitioners.
• Highlights the relevance of racial heterogeneity broadly, but also its significance for particular racial groups—for example, Pacific Islanders and mixed-race/multiracial students—who are largely understudied.
• Offers recommendations that include the importance of promoting collaboration between researchers, advocates, practitioners, and policymakers.

• Contents
• Series Foreword 
  vii
• James A. Banks
• Preface: Race: American Education’
  s Inescapable Conundrum 
  xiii
• Walter R. Allen
• 1. 
  Introduction 
  1
• Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen and Robert T. Teranishi
• Part I: Conceptual Considerations of Racial Heterogeneity
• 2. 
  Who’
  s Black?  
  Hybridity, Complexity, and Fluidity in 21st-Century Racial Identity 
  15
• Gloria Ladson-Billings
• 3. 
  Latinos in the American Racial Hierarchy:  
  The Complexities of Identity and Group Formation 
  29
• Luis Ricardo Fraga and Nicole Perez
• 4. 
  Panethnicity and Ethnic Heterogeneity:  
  The Politics of Lumping and Disaggregating Asian Americans  
  and Pacific Islanders in Educational Policy 
  46
• Michael Omi, Mike Hoa Nguyen, and Jason Chan
• 5. 
  The ”
  Invisible”
  Minority: Finding a Sense of Belonging After  
  Imperialism, Colonialism, and (Im)migration for Native Hawaiian  
  and Pacific Islanders in the United States 
  67
• ‘
  Inoke Hafoka, Kē
  haulani Vaughn, Iosefa Aina, and Cynthia M. Alcantar
• 6. 
  Draw Your Own Box? Further Complicating Racial Data  
  for Multiracial/Two or More Races College Students 
  84
• Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero and Karly Sarita Ford
• Part II: Unmasking Educational Inequality Through Disaggregated Data
• 7. 
  Similar, But Not the Same: Considering the Intersections of  
  Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Status in the Lives of Black Students 
  103
• Kimberly A. Griffin and Chrystal A. George Mwangi
• 8. 
  Beyond Reservations: Exploring Diverse Backgrounds and 
  Tribal Citizenship Among Native College Students 
  119
• Heather J. Shotton
• 9. 
  The Mismeasure of Native American Students:  
  Using Data Disaggregation to Promote Identity Safety 
  131
• Laura M. Brady, Zoe Higheagle Strong, and Stephanie A. Fryberg
• 10. 
  More Than Nuance: Recognizing and Serving  
  the Diversity of the Latinx Community 
  154
• Desiree D. Zerquera, Jasmine Haywood, and MartÍ
  n De Mucha
• 11. 
  Data Quality in the Evaluation of Latino Student Success 
  170
• Stella M. Flores, Brian Holzman, and Leticia Oseguera
• Conclusion 
  195
• Robert T. Teranishi
• About the Editors and Contributors 
  202
• Index 
  207