Overview
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapter 9
Lesson
- In the article below, review the two columns comparing the 1790 Census categories with the 2020 Census categories
- Pew Research Center. (2020, February 6). What Census calls usLinks to an external site.. https://www.pewresearch.org/interactives/what-cens...
- Instructions
This week, you learned about the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent racial and ethnic categories. For this assignment, you will complete the attached case study worksheet that guides you through analyzing the concepts of race, ethnicity, and gender as social constructs, just as sociologists do. You will apply racial and ethnic categories used in the 2020 Census with the four racial, ethnic, and gender categories used in the 1790 Census: Free white males, free white females, all other free persons, and slaves (Pew Research Center, 2020).
*This assignment is adapted from Glaser (2018).