Chang's Essay 'Why Obama Should Not Have Checked' On His Census
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Eve Chen
Porf. Foster
Engl 1301
3 August 2015
Summary/ Critical Response #3:
Elizabeth Chang’s “Why Obama Should Not Have Checked ‘Black’ on His Census
Form”
In Chang’s essay “Why Obama Should Not Have Checked ‘Black’ On His Census
Form” she used solemn tone to analysis why she think that identify the race is unnecessary. This essay examines the expectations – both positive and negative that characterized public discourse about the introduction of multiplerace reporting on the
2000 U.S. Census. Chang also used example of Obama’s word: “ I selfidentify as an
African American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed.” to prove the
races unfair still exist. Which her expectations have been borne out: “ race is an ...unless construct because of if every biracial person chose one race, it also means they toss half part of themselves” and “We might not never get rid of the racial category in the census form but we need to do it right”(331).
Reading Chang’s essay make me think and what unforeseen developments seem most likely to be the medium or longterm legacy of the revision of the federal racial standards? Maybe filling out the census from is just a format of demographic statistics, but consequences of ignoring biracial people will effect the society. She took her own children as the fact of uncertain identify, therefore it gave pathos to the essay. This
Chen 2 situation make me think back to civil war, if civil war make the protection known as
“civil rights” then why cannot Obama check white on his census. Chang used ethos as using president Obama as an example, added value in the essay. In my opinion, I agree with the society should not identify who we are, even we cannot make the society agree, but we have the rights to choose and identify who we are.
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Work Cited
Elizabeth Chang.
Blair Reader: Why Obama Should Not Checked “Black”on His Census
Form.
Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. New Jersey: Pearson, 2014.
330331. Print.
Eve Chen
Porf. Foster
Engl 1301
3 August 2015
Summary/ Critical Response #3:
Elizabeth Chang’s “Why Obama Should Not Have Checked ‘Black’ on His Census
Form”
In Chang’s essay “Why Obama Should Not Have Checked ‘Black’ On His Census
Form” she used solemn tone to analysis why she think that identify the race is unnecessary. This essay examines the expectations – both positive and negative that characterized public discourse about the introduction of multiplerace reporting on the
2000 U.S. Census. Chang also used example of Obama’s word: “ I selfidentify as an
African American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed.” to prove the
races unfair still exist. Which her expectations have been borne out: “ race is an ...unless construct because of if every biracial person chose one race, it also means they toss half part of themselves” and “We might not never get rid of the racial category in the census form but we need to do it right”(331).
Reading Chang’s essay make me think and what unforeseen developments seem most likely to be the medium or longterm legacy of the revision of the federal racial standards? Maybe filling out the census from is just a format of demographic statistics, but consequences of ignoring biracial people will effect the society. She took her own children as the fact of uncertain identify, therefore it gave pathos to the essay. This
Chen 2 situation make me think back to civil war, if civil war make the protection known as
“civil rights” then why cannot Obama check white on his census. Chang used ethos as using president Obama as an example, added value in the essay. In my opinion, I agree with the society should not identify who we are, even we cannot make the society agree, but we have the rights to choose and identify who we are.
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Work Cited
Elizabeth Chang.
Blair Reader: Why Obama Should Not Checked “Black”on His Census
Form.
Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. New Jersey: Pearson, 2014.
330331. Print.