Throughout U.S. history, the census has been used for both good and bad. During Reconstruction, it helped enfranchise voters –– but during World War II, it helped facilitate the internment of Japanese Americans. (via WBUR)
“People can see that as the federal government is deciding what categories people fit in, who actually are we? How are we defined?” says Ayers . “I think that everything feels like it's of a new stake of importance right now.”On why the census was so important to the Founding Fathers, and its history of distortions
“Not only does the Constitution create the census, but it also builds in a distortion from the very beginning. People will remember the Three-Fifths Compromise in which five enslaved people count as three in terms of population. So, the House of Representatives and the Electoral College are both kind of manufactured from the beginning by the census, by giving the South this huge advantage.
Ayers: “The one great continuity across the entire history of the census is that it singled out African-American people, and in 1850, they start bringing additional details now — not details such as people's actual names, but their gender and strangely whether or not the white census-taker deems them to be black or mulatto, of mixed race.
“You have historians in the early 2000s, who basically began to uncover the Census Bureau providing block-level information about those of Japanese ancestry living in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Arkansas, and it really does force the Census Bureau in some ways to look back on that period and apologize. And so you have in 2000 the director of the U.S.
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