Question

For this assignment, consider the racial and ethnic categories used in the 2010 Census with the four racial, ethnic, and gender categories used in the 1790 Census: Free white males, free white females, all other free persons, slaves (Pew Research Center, 2015). Analyze the concepts of race, ethnicity, and gender as social constructs, just as sociologists do, by addressing the following:

1. Explain how you might have been categorized by the 1790 Census and how you would have been categorized by the 2010 Census.
2. Compare and contrast the two potential categorizations and explain how this exercise shows that the concepts of race, ethnicity, and even gender change over time. Most importantly, explain how this exercise shows that the concepts of race, ethnicity, and gender are social constructs.
3. Determine and describe what ethnic, racial, and/or gender categories, if any, would be best, in your view, for the 2020 Census or the 2030 Census, to most accurately show the diversity of the U.S. population. What categories would be best to reveal the segments of the U.S. population most vulnerable to racial, ethnic, and/or gender inequalities or discrimination? What categories could be listed in the 2020 Census or the 2030 Census that might best educate the U.S. population on differences between race and ethnicity? Explain your decisions.

Include headings for each of the three main sections of the paper:

• What the Census Might Have Called Me
• Social Constructs
• Better Future Census Categories

Answer 1

The first census began congress in the 1790 census the law implemented that every household should be visited and a complete census schedule was planned.

In 1790 called for the name of the head of the family and the number of persons in each household of the following descriptions:

• Free White males of 16 years and upward (to assess the country's industrial and military potential)
• Free White males under 16 years
• Free White females
• All other free persons
• Slaves

The racial and ethnic group population of Hispanic and the Asian have grown at a higher level when considering the non-Hispanic white people population grows numerically stated by U.S. Census Bureau, It also states that the majority of U.S population in the period of 2000 - 2010 Hispanic has immigrated by 43 percent and raising in millions on estimation it is found that the Hispanic has accounted an increase in half of the U.S population. The people who belong to the white race and the on-Hispanic people become lower in number.

Central Bureau announced that Trump's proposal will not be as Obama's proposal and the Central Bureau has planning to increase the national headcount by 2020. In a public meeting on 2020 census preparation the chief of the bureau's population division, Karen Battle announced that people from the Middle East or North Africa will not be included in 2020 questionnaires