U.S. Census: Rationalizing Race and Prison Map

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Josh Begley, creator of Racebox.org
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Web artist. @Dronestream, NYU.
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The United States is the prison capital of the world. This is not news to most people. Prison Map is not a map -- it's a snapshot of the earth's surface, taken at various points throughout the United States. It was made by Josh Begley.

U.S. Census: Rationalizing Race

Join our discussion about the history of racial and ethnic categories and all there is to learn from the U.S. Census. Featuring Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the U.S. Census Bureau's Racial Statistics Branch, and sociologist Ann Morning, author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference; and including web artists Josh Begley, creator of Racebox.org, and Jonathan Soma, creator of A Handsome Atlas; moderated by Eric Hamako, doctoral candidate in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

This event is presented in collaboration with MAVIN: The Mixed Heritage Experience.

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