Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...analyzing slave registers, marriage records during Reconstruction and later census data, Gutman found that the two-parent household and long-lasting marriages have been typical among blacks for most of their American experience. In the slave quarters, marital fidelity was highly regarded and defended, but premarital sex was tolerated, and no stigma was attached to illegitimacy. Except when marriages were broken by the sale of one spouse, the clear tendency was for stable, long-lasting slave marriages. In some cases, marriages even survived successful escapes by one spouse. Gutman quotes a Natchez, Miss., slave overseer who said that slaves...
After he found one of his ancestors listed in an 1870 census later that day, he said it "just absolutely grabbed me." He explained, "I'm obviously obsessed. You must be obsessed to write this kind of book...
...Crimson argued in its editorial of October 19 that Asian Americans be recognized as a minority group because of acknowledged "economic and social disadvantage." Mr. Karnes alludes to U.S. Census figures which he believes indicate that Asian Americans have "in general... attained an above average standard of living." Karnes concludes hence that "barriers to equality which did indeed exist in the past for this group have largely vanished...
...Crimson argues that Asian-Americans be delegated minority standing in accordance with federal definitions of their being a minority group because of "economic and social disadvantage." Yet current U.S. Census figures show that Asian-Americans today penetrate all income levels and, in general, have attained an above average standard of living. The barriers to equality which did indeed exist in the past for this group have largely vanished. That the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare fails to recognize this change in circumstances is little reason for Harvard to extend the subscription to archaic definitions for the mere sake...
...poverty" that Lyndon Johnson launched in the mid-1960s began winding down when Richard Nixon and the Republicans moved into the White House in 1969, but many signs of L.B.J.'s battle are still around. One of them is the U.S. Census Bureau's annual reckoning of how many Americans are "poor." The latest report, issued three weeks ago, was a shocker: it counted 12.3% of the total population-precisely 25.9 million Americans-as living at or below the poverty line, the highest percentage of poor since 1970. Worse still, there were 2.5 million more poor than...