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