Here's a link to a U.S. Census Bureau web site that calls attention to reasons why researchers might be hesitant to use race as a research category. Researchers use these designations to conduct research. At the same time, interpretations of race are institutionalized. Choosing to use these designations is a way that researchers promote institutionalized views of people, as individual members of a larger society. http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/racefactcb.html /Gail --------------------------------------- Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant Library & Information Science Research Assistant "Technology enables man to gain control over everything except technology." -- Unknown