2415 - Race and Identity: Feeling Race and Feeling Validated; Race, Recognition, and Identity on the 2020 Census

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

By the 2018 ASA Annual Meeting, the plans for the 2020 Census race/ethnicity question will be solidified, following a decades long effort to examine potential new question designs with several national-level empirical research studies, consultations with experts, advisors, and stakeholder organizations, deliberations with federal statistics agencies, and ultimately decisions by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on the ways in which race/ethnicity categories and questions should be utilized. This session will explore the framing of the 2020 Census race/ethnicity question and discuss the categories and detailed groups that are presented on the form and how these relate to feeling race and feeling validated. Panelists will discuss what this ultimately means individual and community recognition, and how all Americans from myriad background can report their diverse identities on the census and see them validated through the production of 2020 Census results that illustrate a snapshot of who we are as a diverse country and how we are changing.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Nicholas A. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau

Panelists

• Jennifer Lee, Columbia University

• Julie A. Dowling, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• C. Matthew Snipp, Stanford University

• Nicholas A. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau