Erasure and recognition: The census, race and the national imagination From: Northwestern University Law Review | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Mezey, Naomi | Copyright Northwestern University School of Law Summer 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The census is one of our relatively few national, secular ceremonies. It provides a sense of social cohesion, and a kind of non-religious communion: we enter the census apparatus as individual identities with a handful of characteristics; then later we receive from the census a group snapshot of ourselves at the ceremony date.1

- William Kruskal

When you can't measure that which is important, you make important that which y ou can measure.2

- Harold Koh

I. INTRODUC...

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