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Running head: Week 5 Assignment Essay-You Decide 1Essay -You Decide
Yvette Rodriguez
Chamberlain College of nursing
SOCS 185: Culture and Society
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, Week 5 Assignment Essay-You Decide 2
What the census might have called me
In the 1790 Census I would have been categorized as an “all other free person”. I don't
fall in the category of free white female or slaves. In the 1790 there were not many categories or
classifications of race. There were only Free white males, Free white females in one single
category. All other free persons and free colored males and females were different categories and
Slaves in their own category. I am mexican american so my only option would be all other free
person. In 1790 to1840 U.S. Marshals were the ones going house to house completing the
census. Only The Names of household heads appeared on the schedule(Bennett, 2000). There
were different formats of the census forms. So the information was not always correct.
In 2010 the census had developed much better categorizing many different races and not
having to choose a race you are not. Since 1790 many categories have developed six
classifications by race and subclassifications within itself have developed. There is also
Classification by Hispanic ethnicity in its own section. Mexican, Mexican American(chicano),
Puerto Rican in its own row, Cuban in its own row, and any other Hispanic, Latino, Spanish
origin. In 2010 I would have fit in the Mexican, Mexican American(chicano) category. Since
1930 Mexicans were counted as a separate race for the first time(Brown, 2020).
Social Construct
In 1790 the categories for the census were very limited and it also included gender
differences. Free White males and females was a category. Then a different category was all
other free persons and slaves. These last two categories did not have a gender difference. Race
was not acknowledged or determined in the census. You were white, other or slave in the 1790’s.
Being Mexican American was not even mentioned at all and especially being a Mexican
american female. My category is other free persons. This does not include race ethnicity or
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