Census usage/racial terms

Tom Zurinskas truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
Fri Jan 22 02:54:35 UTC 2010


Wilson, I'll stand by you on that one.  You're an American and you can speak freely and have free choice.  Color you red, white, and blue.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Wilson Gray
> Subject: Re: Census usage/racial terms
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> I prefer the term that appears on my birth certificate:
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> Race of father : Colored
> Race of Mother: Colored
> Race of Child : Colored
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> @Ron: Surely, you jest! You can't really believe that _race_ is
> well-defined WRT humanity.
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> Somehow, I find it nothing less than amazing that people worry over
> the mote of terminology as they ignore the beam of racism.
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> -Wilson
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> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Walsh, Barclay wrote:
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>> Sender: American Dialect Society
>> Poster: "Walsh, Barclay"
>> Subject: Re: Census usage/racial terms
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>> ADS:
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>> Pew Research Center has a new 2010 Census site which includes the followin=
>> g article. May be of interest in light of the on-going discussion:
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>> Race and the Census: The "Negro" Controversy
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>> January 21, 2010
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>> The topic of racial identification on census forms has a long, fascinating =
>> history, which has generated fr=
>> esh debate as the 2010 Census begins. Why, some ask, does the form include =
>> the word "Negro," along with "black" and "African American," among the opti=
>> ons that Americans can choose for their self-identification? Isn't that ter=
>> m out of date?
>> As you can see from the review that follows here, racial terms have come i=
>> n and out of favor from one decade to the next. There was a similar debate =
>> about "Negro" in the 2000 Census, as there have been about other race terms=
>> in previous census years.
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>> http://census.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/race-and-the-census-the-%e2%80%9cneg=
>> ro%e2%80%9d-controversy
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>> Barclay Walsh
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>> New York Times DC research
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> --
> -Wilson
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