Due on Fri, 07/26 @ 11:59PM.
- Take some time to reflect on the following questions:
- What do you know about race in the US?
- What about outside the US?
- What race do people perceive you as and how do you know that?
- Is the race you’re perceived as the race you identify as?
- How do you choose what race to identify as?
- Then, review this historical timeline of race as categorized by the U.S. Census.
- Revisit your answers to the questions above and reflect on the Census timeline:
- What/Who are the constants?
- Who appeared? Who disappeared?
- What does it mean for a race to change or disappear?
- How does this reflect the (hi)story of America?
- How would you and/or your ancestors have been identified by census takers? How would you identify now?
- Consider how much our field relies on data collection and visualization:
- How would/do races get collapsed for data reporting?
- Who makes those decisions?
- Who does it impact?
- What does it mean to lump or group multiple groups as one?
- Why is it important to identify how tools and data represent reality?