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“Douglass's story reminds us that names are things we use, as well as things that others use to grasp and hold on to a sense of us. Names don't spring forth fully formed from the platonic ideal of our identities. Names are social technologies, built and negotiated through extensive social systems.”
― Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
― Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
“The decisions the census informed -- in war or peace -- could not overcome the limits of the society the data described. Democracy's data is only as good as the democracy it serves.”
― Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
― Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
