Author: Carroll Davidson Wright
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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The History and Growth of the United States Census
Author: Carroll Davidson Wright
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
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Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1752
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1752
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The History and Growth of the United States Census
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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The History and Growth of the U.S. Census, Prepared for the Senate Committee on the Census by C.D. Wright
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Census Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Counting Americans
Author: Paul Schor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190670843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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How could the same person be classified by the US census as black in 1900, mulatto in 1910, and white in 1920? The history of categories used by the US census reflects a country whose identity and self-understanding--particularly its social construction of race--is closely tied to the continuous polling on the composition of its population. By tracing the evolution of the categories the United States used to count and classify its population from 1790 to 1940, Paul Schor shows that, far from being simply a reflection of society or a mere instrument of power, censuses are actually complex negotiations between the state, experts, and the population itself. The census is not an administrative or scientific act, but a political one. Counting Americans is a social history exploring the political stakes that pitted various interests and groups of people against each other as population categories were constantly redefined. Utilizing new archival material from the Census Bureau, this study pays needed attention to the long arc of contested changes in race and census-making. It traces changes in how race mattered in the United States during the era of legal slavery, through its fraught end, and then during (and past) the period of Jim Crow laws, which set different ethnic groups in conflict. And it shows how those developing policies also provided a template for classifying Asian groups and white ethnic immigrants from southern and eastern Europe--and how they continue to influence the newly complicated racial imaginings informing censuses in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Focusing in detail on slaves and their descendants, on racialized groups and on immigrants, and on the troubled imposition of U.S. racial categories upon the populations of newly acquired territories, Counting Americans demonstrates that census-taking in the United States has been at its core a political undertaking shaped by racial ideologies that reflect its violent history of colonization, enslavement, segregation and discrimination.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190670843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
How could the same person be classified by the US census as black in 1900, mulatto in 1910, and white in 1920? The history of categories used by the US census reflects a country whose identity and self-understanding--particularly its social construction of race--is closely tied to the continuous polling on the composition of its population. By tracing the evolution of the categories the United States used to count and classify its population from 1790 to 1940, Paul Schor shows that, far from being simply a reflection of society or a mere instrument of power, censuses are actually complex negotiations between the state, experts, and the population itself. The census is not an administrative or scientific act, but a political one. Counting Americans is a social history exploring the political stakes that pitted various interests and groups of people against each other as population categories were constantly redefined. Utilizing new archival material from the Census Bureau, this study pays needed attention to the long arc of contested changes in race and census-making. It traces changes in how race mattered in the United States during the era of legal slavery, through its fraught end, and then during (and past) the period of Jim Crow laws, which set different ethnic groups in conflict. And it shows how those developing policies also provided a template for classifying Asian groups and white ethnic immigrants from southern and eastern Europe--and how they continue to influence the newly complicated racial imaginings informing censuses in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Focusing in detail on slaves and their descendants, on racialized groups and on immigrants, and on the troubled imposition of U.S. racial categories upon the populations of newly acquired territories, Counting Americans demonstrates that census-taking in the United States has been at its core a political undertaking shaped by racial ideologies that reflect its violent history of colonization, enslavement, segregation and discrimination.
Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909: Lists of congressional and departmental publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1794
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1794
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Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Key to the Publications of the United States Census, 1790-1887
Author: Edward Clark Lunt
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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People of the United States in the 20th Century
Author: Irene Barnes Taeuber
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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