Census and Consensus?: A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology<BR> Used for American Residents of African Ancestry

Colored, Black, Negro, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, African American. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the language policies governing the selection and application of the racial classifiers used by the United States Census for American residents of African ancestry over the past 200 years. The historical linguistic investigation is supplemented by a corpus of letters sent by the American public concerning not only the government's controversial policies of racial designation, but also its methods of racial classification. Detailed demographic information about the evolving multicultural diversity of the US society is provided, along with a critical political discussion of the ways in which these sociological developments may effect the ways Americans define themselves.Iman Makeba Laversuch is the author of 'Census and Consensus?: A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology
Used for American Residents of African Ancestry', published 2005 under ISBN 9783631534557 and ISBN 3631534558.