Calculating race : racial discrimination in risk assessment / Benjamin Wiggins.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197504031 (ebook) :Subject(s): African Americans -- Social conditions
| African Americans -- Economic conditions | Risk assessment -- United States | Race discrimination -- United States | United States -- Race relations | Actuarial science -- United States | African Americans -- Housing | Life insurance -- United States | African American criminals | Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United StatesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197504000DDC classification: 305.896073 LOC classification: E185.86 | .W43855 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 'Calculating Race' presents the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. It illustrates how, through a reliance on the variable of race, actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and, in turn, helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the 19th century into the 20th. The monograph begins by investigating the development of statistical risk assessment explicitly based on race in the late-19th-century life insurance industry. It then traces how such risk assessment migrated from industry to government, becoming a guiding force in parole decisions and in federal housing policy. Finally, it concludes with an analysis of 'proxies' for race-statistical variables that correlate significantly with race.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Calculating Race' presents the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. It illustrates how, through a reliance on the variable of race, actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and, in turn, helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the 19th century into the 20th. The monograph begins by investigating the development of statistical risk assessment explicitly based on race in the late-19th-century life insurance industry. It then traces how such risk assessment migrated from industry to government, becoming a guiding force in parole decisions and in federal housing policy. Finally, it concludes with an analysis of 'proxies' for race-statistical variables that correlate significantly with race.
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