Photos of Rationalizing Race
Posted on
May 28, 2013
Photographs of the April 18, 2013 discussion about the history of racial and ethnic categories and all there is to learn from the U.S. Census.
Featuring Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the U.S. Census Bureau's Racial Statistics Branch, and sociologist Ann Morning, author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference; and including web artists Josh Begley, creator of Racebox.org, and Jonathan Soma, creator of A Handsome Atlas; moderated by Eric Hamako, doctoral candidate in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
This event was presented in collaboration with MAVIN: The Mixed Heritage Experience.
A full video of the event is available here.
All photos by Willie Davis for Brooklyn Historical Society, 2013