Thanks for the ref! Looks like the Times was quoting an email from Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute. The full quote's a little more waffly.
Historically, this has played out in the practices of the Census Bureau and the Citizenship and Immigration Services that “recorded race and ethnicity categories over time, e.g., ‘Celt’ and ‘Hebrew’ once appeared outside of the ‘Caucasian’ category.”
I have no doubt they used categories and practices that excluded the Jews and the Irish from being white at some point; but he doesn't claim -- and they don't, to the best of my knowledge, ever seem -- to have put that on the actual US census form per se .
I know, this is an OT quibble. :-) It caught my eye because I've been doing a lot of genealogical research these last couple years.
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Date: 2018-09-01 08:30 pm (UTC)Historically, this has played out in the practices of the Census Bureau and the Citizenship and Immigration Services that “recorded race and ethnicity categories over time, e.g., ‘Celt’ and ‘Hebrew’ once appeared outside of the ‘Caucasian’ category.”
I have no doubt they used categories and practices that excluded the Jews and the Irish from being white at some point; but he doesn't claim -- and they don't, to the best of my knowledge, ever seem -- to have put that on the actual US census form per se .
I know, this is an OT quibble. :-) It caught my eye because I've been doing a lot of genealogical research these last couple years.