The Administrative Construction of the American Citizen: How OMB Directive 15, the Census Bureau, and Federal Forms Manufactured Race — and Why Abolishing It Would Shrink the State (Book 2)

They were created by a handful of career officials in the Office of Management and Budget.

Book 2 of The Fatigue of Racism – traces the bureaucratic origins of OMB Directive 15 (1977) and its 1997 revision. It reveals how a procedural statute (the Paperwork Reduction Act) became the legal foundation for classifying every American citizen by race.

You will find:

· Why the 1977 drafters explicitly stated that the categories were “social‑political constructs, not scientific.”

· How the multiracial movement, Native Hawaiian advocates, and political pressure forced the 1997 revision (“mark one or more races”).

· Why a “Middle Eastern or North African” category was rejected in 1997 but added in 2024 – using the same evidence.

· How civil rights enforcement (Title VI, Title VII, the Voting Rights Act) created a self‑perpetuating loop: data → disparities → enforcement → more data.

· The census as an engine of reification: the state does not find pre‑existing races; it creates them.

· Why the system is a classic case of path dependence – it persists because it is there, not because it is best.

A replacement framework exists: geography (ZIP code), socioeconomic status, ancestry (country of origin), and individual evidence of discrimination.

The administrative prison was built by human beings.

It can be unmade by human beings.

This book shows you how.

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