Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

What is most interesting to me about the form of the "form" is the type of relationship it has with the person filling it out. It reminds me of what Julia said this morning about the face becoming the fingerprint. The form becomes the representation of who ever fills it out.(but who is to say that the information they give is truthful or entirely accurate?).The 2000 Census forms that i looked at were very detailed and the information most saught after were labels or categories of identity. (if identity is a double-edged sword why would you bother to fill in the boxes that would identify you as anything less than the majority?).Some of the categories were male/female, Hispanic,African American,Native American, Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Fillipino,Hawaii Native,Alaska Native, and white. Someone in my group thought it odd that white was such a broad and sweeping category. It seems not much has changed since the 1970 census. This is when the census categories were white male, white boy, white woman and "other". The only difference is that the other needed to be  classified and categorized. Meaning that if you weren't a part of the same old category of "other" than there was no need to break you down and identify you as anything besides (OR less than) white.