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| Subject: | Re: GISList: race and census |
| Date: |
12/26/2001 05:03:51 PM |
| From: |
Paul H.Dillon |
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Rebecca,
No I'm talking about the 2000 and 1990 censuses both of which I am currently
using for redistricting studies.
I'm not sure of the terminology. The key is that hispanic is not opposed to
anything other than non-hispanic, it is the 1st order "ethnic" distinction
in the census. Within that you have white, black, etc. As a consequence
you can't have a list of the population that is: white black and hispanic,
for example, since hispanics can be both white or black. It takes some
playing with to represent the figures that you are actually interested in.
Paul H. DIllon
----- Original Message -----
From: Rebecca Morrison <morrisonr@washpost.com>
To: <gislist@geocomm.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 10:51 AM
Subject: GISList: race and census
> > To my memory he's correct about the hispanic being a question of decent,
> not
> race. That question always confused people when I had to ask it after
> asking the race question.
>
> You must have worked on 1990 or before. They switched the order for the
> 2000 census because of that issue. And Hispanic is one of the two
official
> ethnicities of the US census. The descent question has many more options
> (e.g. Irish and Welsh).
>
> > I did love asking black people what race they
> were. I got quite a few laughs from 'em. :-)
>
> In the old days (before about 1960) they didn't ask. At one time, the
> census used to give their workers diagrams of eye, nose, and lip shapes so
> they could "correctly" categorize people.
>
> Think about the terrorist they've got in London whom they thought was Sri
> Lankan, but he turned out to be British/Jamaican. I'm using National
> categories here, but race is not easily distinguished by sight. I once
> asked two women sitting next to each other if they were sisters, but one
of
> them was from Nepal, and the other was from the South Pacific! The truth
> is, race is a social construction, and physiognomy varies more within the
> so-called "races" than it does between them. If we can tell the
difference
> between black and white, it's because we're ignoring a lot of other
> differences and similarities. Most black people in the United States have
> both European and African ancestry, for instance.
>
> But don't get me started...
>
> Beckee Morrison
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