220 years of census data proves race is a social construct
Aug 19, 2016 14:59:13 GMT
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Post by ck4829 on Aug 19, 2016 14:59:13 GMT
The census is a survey the United States conducts every decade to take stock of who lives in the country. But it's also more than that: The census is a time capsule of a place and era during which it is collected — the survey's race and ethnicity categories are a testimony of that.
You can see in this interactive what labels the agency has used over time, since the census began in 1790, and also how the government might have categorized you had you lived in that era.
Take me as an example. I'm a German-born first-generation Vietnamese immigrant to New York — or that's how I identify today. In 1860, the government first started counting people of Asian descent but only people of Chinese descent. Had I lived in the US in that era, the census taker — who was the person who got to pick my racial identity for me — might have mistaken me as Chinese.
www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12404688/census-race-history-intersectionality
You can see in this interactive what labels the agency has used over time, since the census began in 1790, and also how the government might have categorized you had you lived in that era.
Take me as an example. I'm a German-born first-generation Vietnamese immigrant to New York — or that's how I identify today. In 1860, the government first started counting people of Asian descent but only people of Chinese descent. Had I lived in the US in that era, the census taker — who was the person who got to pick my racial identity for me — might have mistaken me as Chinese.
www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12404688/census-race-history-intersectionality
