Racial Categories Used in the Decennial Censuses, 1790 to the Present

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-180

  Bennett, Claudette ^a  

^a U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

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EID: 0000029961     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0740-624X(00)00024-1     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Article 1. Section 2, of the United States Constitution.
2. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 200 Years of U.S. Census Taking: Population and Housing Questions, 1790-1990 (1989), p. 1.
3. Frederick G. Bohme, "U.S. Economic Censuses, 1810 to the Present," Government Information Quarterly, 4 (1987): 224.
4. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1979. Twenty Censuses: Population and Housing Questions 1790-1980 (1979), p. 14.
5. Ibid., p. 19.
6. U.S. Department of Commerce. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Twenty Censuses, p. 18.
7. Ibid., p. 19.
8. Ibid., p. 22.
9. Ibid., p. 28.
10. Ibid., p. 42.
11. Ibid., p. 52.
12. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, United States Census of Population: 1950, Special reports, Nonwhite Population by Race. 3B (1954), p. 4.
13. U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Bureau of the Census, "1960 Census of Population and Housing, Procedural History" (1966), pp. 189-190.
14. McKenney, Nampeo, & Arthur Cresce, "Measurement of Ethnicity in the United States: Experiences of the U.S. Census Bureau," in Challenges of Measuring an Ethnic World. Proceedings from an International Conference on Race an Ethnicity (1993).
15. Office of Management and Budget, "Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity," Federal Register, 62 (210) (1997): 58782-58790.