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The Census Counts Us Equally and Categorizes Us Arbitrarily
Call It Like I See It
English - April 07, 2020 18:00 - 50 minutes - 117 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSociety & Culture News News Commentary news politics science technology psychology environment Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Having recently completed their forms from the U.S. 2020 Census, James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at the census and why participation is vital for having your interests addressed by our government (02:00). The guys also discuss how the handling of race in the 2020 Census illustrates that race as we know it is an artificial construct (10:49), speculate why the concept of race is used the way that it is (21:43), and consider whether race is used in the U.S. in an analogous way to the way tribe has been used in societies (44:47).