@article{Shirley_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Technique 47: Race/Ethnicity, Social Construction, Social Location, Secondary Data}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/technique-47-raceethnicity-social-construction}, abstractNote={Teaching Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes: To enable students to demographically situate themselves within their college and home geographical areas; to stimulate discussion by comparing students’ assumptions about the racial/ethnic make-up of these geographical areas to the statistical realities; to discuss how those assumptions and/or statistical realities can influence students’ perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, and experiences; to illustrate the social construction of race; to show how the census racial/ethnic categories have changed over time and how they are currently defined; and to demonstrate how students can access census data on-line and use the statistics in their own research.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Shirley, Carla}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }