Post by ck4829 on Aug 19, 2016 14:59:53 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.
www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12404688/census-race-history-intersectionality
New data for the social construction of race, see more in the forum.
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.
www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12404688/census-race-history-intersectionality
New data for the social construction of race, see more in the forum.