(Image: Something Redistributed vs. Something Redistributed Enough, 2019/2020. Kenneth Pietrobono/Uncertainty Labs)
[Image of an identical empty rectangle on two white backgrounds with black text left-aligned on each; the first captioned with text reading Something Redistributed and the second reading Something Redistributed Enough with a yellow border in a wooden frame.]
REDISTRIBUTION
DISCUSSION 4
Redistribution at Scale: When is something redistributed enough? How is the need for and the scale of redistribution determined? Who counts, who gets counted, and how? What happens when we move “redistribution” from rhetoric to redistribution in action?
“The right to be counted is the basis for our empowerment.”
Part 1
Amit Singh Bagga, Deputy Director, New York City Census, discusses the purpose and history of the census, and the struggle to be counted.
REFERENCES, PART 1:
Fill out the Census: www.my2020census.gov
New York City 2020 Census site: https://www.ny.gov/programs/2020-census
Amit Singh Bagga, “This Year, Make Pride Really Count,” Gay City News, June 24, 2020
Hansi Lo Wang “Census Work Has Been Winding Down, But A Judge Says It Needs To Press On For Now,” NPR.org
Ted Widmer, “How the Census Changed America,” The New Yorker, May 1, 2019
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, Random House, 2020
Michael Wines, “Federal Court Rejects Trump’s Order to Exclude Undocumented From Census,” The New York Times, September 10, 2020
Amit Singh Bagga is Deputy Director of the New York City Census.
Discussion 4, Part 1 was released on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.