{"id":5240,"date":"2004-08-13T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:10:10","slug":"painting-by-numberwhat-new-racial-categories-in-the-census-say-about-how-america-defines-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/13\/painting-by-numberwhat-new-racial-categories-in-the-census-say-about-how-america-defines-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting by Number:What new racial categories in the Census say about how America defines itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpronline.org\/news\/2001\/06\/01\/bunitedStatesb\/Painting.By.Number-83268.shtml\">Painting by Number<\/a>:  What new racial categories in the Census say about how America defines itself<br \/>\nBy Christopher Librizzi<br \/>\nPublished: Friday, June 1, 2001 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE NATIONAL CENSUS was first conducted in 1790 and, until 1870, recognized only two races of Americans: White and Black. Native Americans, despite their undeniable place in the country\u2019s history, were not included until 1890. No category for Latinos existed until 1970. The evolution of the race question on the Census reveals not only the centrality of race to the American experience, but also the slow, uneven progress of race relations. New racial questions signal the shifting undercurrents in American society, changes in social and political realities so powerful that they alter the way we as a nation choose to identify ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Number: What new racial categories in the Census say about how America defines itself By Christopher Librizzi Published: Friday, June 1, 2001 THE NATIONAL CENSUS was first conducted in 1790 and, until&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1mw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7068,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/7068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}