In this Zócalo video, sociologist Jennifer Lee discusses the social construction of race and the history of the U.S. census with NALEO’s Arturo Vargas and the L.A. Times‘ Steve Padilla:
For more on the social construction of race, see our post on race and ethnicity in censuses around the world.
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
