{"id":8084,"date":"2010-07-23T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T18:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8084"},"modified":"2010-07-23T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T18:40:36","slug":"a-brief-history-of-census-%e2%80%9crace%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8084","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Census \u201cRace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k\/frank-w-sweet\/a-brief-history-of-census-race\/k16kl3c2f2au\/32#\" target=\"_blank\">A Brief History of Census \u201cRace\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k\" target=\"_blank\">Knol: A unit of knowledge<\/a><br \/>\n2010-06-08<br \/>\n4 illustrations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank W. Sweet<\/strong>, Independent Research Historian<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. federal census was founded to apportion congressional representation among the states. In order to achieve additional goals, it switched in 1850 from recording households in summary, to recording individuals in detail. It became self-administered in 1960 to reduce costs. It has always been a political instrument of the administration in power. Today, the census encourages identity politics and so wavers between the goal of capturing \u201crace\u201d as a form of ethnic self-identity, and the equally desired but conflicting goal of capturing \u201crace\u201d as involuntary physical trait.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This brief history covers three major topics: <em>The Changes of 1850 and 1960, Politics and Confidentiality<\/em>, and <em>The \u201cRace\u201d Question<\/em>. The third topic, the history of the \u201crace\u201d question, is then presented in six sub-topics: <em>Changes in \u201cRacial\u201d Terminology<\/em>, <em>Changes in \u201cRacial\u201d Categories<\/em>, <em>Changes in \u201cRacial\u201d Criteria<\/em>, <em>Changes in Stated \u201cRacial\u201d Goals<\/em>, <em>The Religion Question Controversy of 1956<\/em>, and <em>The Legality of Refusal<\/em>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k\/frank-w-sweet\/a-brief-history-of-census-race\/k16kl3c2f2au\/32#\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brief History of Census \u201cRace\u201d Knol: A unit of knowledge 2010-06-08 4 illustrations Frank W. Sweet, Independent Research Historian The U.S. federal census was founded to apportion congressional representation among the states. In order to achieve additional goals, it switched in 1850 from recording households in summary, to recording individuals in detail. It became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,6,20],"tags":[3113],"class_list":["post-8084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-frank-w-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084","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=8084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}