Metropolitics

Miscounting Americans Correctly: Post-Truth as a Guide to Race and the US Census

Gregory Smithsimon — 2018-06-12T15:11:04Z

Paul Schor's book Counting Americans demonstrates that, in the hands of the US Census Bureau, the concept of race has consistently been both tenacious and malleable. In this review, Greg Smithsimon explores the census as the “hidden abattoir” of a deeply racialized American society, a renderer of categories that, while seeming clear and self-evident in daylight, are the contingent product of brutality.
As the best available portrait of an increasingly diverse and multiracial country, the US

- Reviews / United States, history, race, population, demographics, census, data, ethnic identity, US Census Bureau, racial classification

Taste of Home: A Sociocultural Exploration of Food Habits and Health Among Bangladeshi Immigrants in New York City

Fatema Kamal — 2018-05-22T05:00:00Z

Resettlement in an entirely different country may have drastic consequences for an individual's health. This is particularly true among immigrants to the US from South Asia; people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives experience particularly severe obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes post-migration. Sociologist Fatema Kamal investigates the nutritional practices of Bangladeshi adults living in New York City, exploring the influence of cultural

- From the Field / immigration, food, New York, migration, Queens, identity, Bronx, Bangladeshi, nutrition, ethnic identity