Identity, Visibility and Representation: The Role of the Census
5:15pm - 6:45pm
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Our closing plenary brings together Latin American and Latin@ scholars and activists to assess the role of the census in their respective countries. Among the issues we will address are the ideological and structural obstacles confronted in the process of bringing attention to racial discrimination? How have advocacy organizations encouraged afrodescendientes to identify as racially Black? To what extent does terminology, i.e., the classifications themselves matter? How much attention should be focused on educating the citizenry? What tangible changes can be attributed to the gathering of racially defined data?
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Our closing plenary brings together Latin American and Latin@ scholars and activists to assess the role of the census in their respective countries. Among the issues we will address are the ideological and structural obstacles confronted in the process of bringing attention to racial discrimination? How have advocacy organizations encouraged afrodescendientes to identify as racially Black? To what extent does terminology, i.e., the classifications themselves matter? How much attention should be focused on educating the citizenry? What tangible changes can be attributed to the gathering of racially defined data?