ETST 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gerald Wilson, Miscegenation, 2000 United States Census
30 Jan 2017
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Gerald wilson orchestra - the golden sword. Whole album was mexican theme jazz from 1966, he wrote these songs in honor of mexican bullfighters. It was then illegal for a white person to marry a black person (they married a year later) The us census: the nation state, race, and physical appearance. The us constitution mandates that a national census take stock of the population every ten years, primarily for the purposes of voting district apportionment and of federal resource distribution among states. The census has functioned to secure recognition and material benefits for groups otherwise ignored or under counted. Ideologically, the census is a collective self portrait of the country that imagines the national identity in explicitly racial terms, defining the white racial norm and categorizing various nonwhite racial others. Naturalization act was in 1790 and it was the first immigration laws.
