Paul Schor is an associate professor of American history at Universite Paris Diderot. He specializes in US social history, with an emphasis on questions of race, ethnicity, segregation, and racial inequality.
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The history of categories used by the US census reflects a country whose identity and self-understanding-particularly its social construction of race-is closely tied to the continuous polling on the composition of its population. By tracing the evolution... SEE MORE