Word: censuses
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Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, on the other hand, thinks that identity politics is still an important issue. Her new book looks at identity politics with an eye toward some practical concerns, such as peremptory strikes in jury selection and racial categories in the census. Minow explained in a lecture at Hillel the other day that one must take a moderate position on group rights. Quoting a saying of the Jewish sage Hillel, Minow quipped that if we are not for ourselves, who will be for us? But it we are only for ourselves, who are we? In other...
According to the 1990 Census figures, 601,643 people live in the eighth district...
...report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights identified numerous structural barriers to APA voting, such as apportionment schemes that in Los Angeles, for example, split APA populations across electoral districts, inadequate publication of multilingual ballots and voting literature and redistricting distortions caused by undercounting in the census. Moreover, the report identifies longstanding bias in the major parties against Asian American politicians...
Both professors expressed some concern about the nature of the demographic categories. On census forms, Hispanic is given as a separate yes or no category, because Hispanic citizens can be of any race...
...purchasing lists from credit-card companies, the casinos know what you buy, and then they can track census data to approximate your home value and income. Then there are the direct-mail lists. One such list from the early 1990s was baldly called the "Compulsive Gamblers Special" and promised to deliver 200,000 names of people with "unquenchable appetites for all forms of gambling." Another list features "some 250,000 hard-core gamblers." Yet another purveys the names of 80,000 people who responded to a vacation-sweepstakes-telemarketing pitch. Such lists allow the gaming companies to tailor their direct...