| Description |
1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Race, Censuses, and Citizenship -- 2. "The Tables present plain mattes of fact": Race Categories in U.S. Censuses -- 3. With "time ..., they will be white": Brazilian Censuses and National Identity -- 4. Identities in Search of Bodies: Popular Campaigns Around Censuses -- 5. Counting by Race: More than Numbers -- Appendix. Race Categories and Instructions to Census Enumerators of U.S. Population Censuses, 1850-1960 |
| Summary |
"This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country's first census in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up through the 2000 census. It sharply challenges certain presumptions that guide scholarly and popular studies, notably that census bureaus are (or designed to be) innocent bystanders in the arena of politics, and that racial data are innocuous demographic data."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Race.
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Group identity.
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Census.
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group identity.
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census records.
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race (group of people)
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Census
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Group identity
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Race
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Census
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Brazil -- Census
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| Subject |
Brazil
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Census data
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804780131 |
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0804780137 |
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