User talk:Asong8/sandbox

This is such a great topic, btw, Alex! If the interest is there, I'd recommend sticking with it throughout the semester. So many interesting things to note - a few comments:

You describe the United States Census Bureau, White House, and the National Institution of Health as unbiased. What evidence supports this? It's okay for the answer to incorporate gut reactions. I'm not asking something with a correct answer - just curious how you arrive at your judgment. Do we expect the Census Bureau to represent themselves objectively? If they are part of the topic, wouldn't it help to see what other professionals (historians, demographers, etc) have to say about it?

you write: Most of the content of the article is relevant to the article topic, however there are instances in which the article digresses from the topic of "Race and ethnicity in the United States Census" to the American people's perception and understanding of race and ethnicity. For example, in the "Relation between ethnicity and race in census results" section, the article states that "Many residents of the United States consider race and ethnicity to be the same."

Why is this a digression? I would certainly agree with you that the placement of the AAA stuff is weird at the end and not super clear. This could be an interesting place to start some cleanup. The other thing that really strikes me about this article is the sources. Race and Ethnicity in the census is a topic that has garnered a lot of attention from a lot of disciplines. From history alone, I imagine there are a million, just one example below....

Anderson, M.J. 1990. The American Census: A Social History. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Gingerninjagirl (talk) 17:59, 4 March 2017 (UTC)