Group items tagged census - Human Geography

Should the Census Offer 'Negro' as an Identity Option? - TIME - 3 views

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census race ethnicity

shared by Jim Pickett on 29 Jan 10 - Cached

the flash point represents a much larger theme: the often contentious way the Census both reflects and forges our evolving understanding of race.
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2000 Census, more than 56,000 people wrote in Negro to describe their identity — even though it was already on the form
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Consider that in a 2006 study of 138 censuses from around the world, New York University sociologist Ann Morning found that only 15% of those asking about ancestry or national origin used the term race. Almost all of those that did were former slave economies.
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only the U.S. asked about Hispanic ethnicity in a stand-alone question.
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could unintentionally reinforce the view that while ethnicity is a product of culture and society, race represents something else
- Jim Pickett on 29 Jan 10
  
  This represents a significant risk of "racialization"
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This represents a significant risk of "racialization"</div>
  
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The first Census, in 1790, explicitly asked about only one race: white.
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The antidiscrimination laws written in the 1960s and the affirmative-action policies that followed relied on Census data to determine if minorities were underrepresented in any number of realms, from home sales to small-business loans.
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One of the possible changes the Census is testing during the 2010 count is allowing respondents to check more than one box not just for race but for Hispanic origin as well.
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Another change under review is letting people who check "white" or "black" to write in more specific information afterward.
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For the time being, write-in responses still often need to be shoehorned into broader categories for the purpose of following certain laws based on official statistics.
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Census categories reflect perceptions. But they also forge them.
- Jim Pickett on 29 Jan 10
  
  And THAT is the argument for racialization
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">And THAT is the argument for racialization</div>
  
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2010 Census Data - 2010 Census - 0 views

2010.census.gov/data

maps mapping census data 2010 interactive population

shared by Jim Pickett on 16 Dec 10 - No Cached

Your Neighborhood's Census Data Gets Mapped - 2 views

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shared by Andy Modell on 23 Feb 11 - No Cached

Andy Modell on 23 Feb 11

Your Neighborhood's Census Data Gets Mapped

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Your Neighborhood's Census Data Gets Mapped</div>

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