The Census Always Boxed Us Out

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Narratively, October 30, 2017

Reprinted by VOX

The US Census had no box for mixed race people like me to honorably check both my black and white heritages for 200 years. That racist perspective was compounded when an ancient Aunt revealed the plantation rape of my black great-grandmother, hidden in Census records by showing a black father.

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