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The theory now known as scientific racism was prevalent for a century from around the 1840s [18] and had at its heart, says Philip D. Curtin, that "race was one of the principal determinants of attitudes, endowments, capabilities and inherent tendencies among human beings. Race thus seemed to determine the course of human history." [19]
The U.S. Census definition of race is often applied in biomedical research in the United States. According to the Census Bureau in 2018, race refers to one's self-identification with a certain racial group. The Bureau also specifies that its use of "race" is as a social concept, not a biological or anthropological one. [7]
The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be and, "generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country". The OMB defines the concept of race as outlined for the census to be not "scientific or anthropological", and takes into account "social ...
One more expert in the field has given her opinion. Ann Morning of the New York University Department of Sociology, [28] and member of the American Sociological Association, discusses the role of biology in the social construction of race. She examines the relationship between genes and race and the social construction of social race clusters.
To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would end use of the term "Negro," count Hispanics as a mutually exclusive ...
While people nowadays are enumerated by race based on self-identification, until 1950 their race on the census was mainly determined by their census enumerator. [176] During this time multiracial people who were White and of another race were usually marked down as belonging to the other race due to the One drop rule. [176]
People who choose “some other race” or do not respond to the race question on the census are assigned a race by the bureau, said Julie A. Dowling, associate professor of sociology and Latin ...
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