{"id":6533,"date":"2010-04-09T00:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T00:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2010-04-09T00:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T00:37:33","slug":"the-census-and-the-social-construction-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6533","title":{"rendered":"The Census and the Social Construction of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/29\/the-census-and-the-social-construction-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Census and the Social Construction of Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere<\/a><br \/>\n2010-03-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/departments.oxy.edu\/sociology\/faculty.htm#wade\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Wade<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Occidental College<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethicity are social constructions, not biological categories.\u00a0 The U.S. government, nonetheless, has an official position on what categories are \u201creal.\u201d\u00a0 You can find them on the U.S. Census&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Alvaro V. asked us to talk a little bit about the Census.\u00a0 So, here are some highlights from the hour-long lecture I give in my Race and Ethnicity course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/29\/the-census-and-the-social-construction-of-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Census and the Social Construction of Race Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2010-03-29 Lisa Wade, Assistant Professor of Sociology Occidental College Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethicity are social constructions, not biological categories.\u00a0 The U.S. government, nonetheless, has an official position on what categories are \u201creal.\u201d\u00a0 You can find them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,6,26,394,20],"tags":[2731,2732],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-lisa-wade","tag-sociological-images-inspiring-sociological-imaginations-everywhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}