I started reading “Democracy’s Data” about the 1940 U.S. Census today. Only a few pages in, author Dan Bouk asks a question that continues to trouble the idea of the American experience.
Data can bring truth to light or make it disappear. I’m excited to dig into what was learned and what may have been lost or obscured in the process of attempting to count every person who lived in the United States for the 1940 Census.
Voracious DPC 