Counting Americans
Counting Americans
How the US Census Classified the Nation
Schor, Paul
Oxford University Press Inc
03/2020
378
Mole
Inglês
9780190092474
15 a 20 dias
554
Note on Illustrations and Tables
Note on Terminology
Introduction
Part I: The Origins of the U.S. Census: From Enumeration of Voters and Taxpayers to "Social Statistics," 1790-1840
Chapter 1: The Creation of the Federal Census by the Constitution of the United States: A Political Instrument
Chapter 2: The First Developments of the National Census (1800-1830)
Chapter 3: The Census of 1840: Science, Politics and "Insanity" of Free Blacks
Part II: Slaves, Former Slaves, Blacks, and Mulattoes: Identification of the Individual and the Statistical Segregation of Populations (1850-1865)
Chapter 4: Whether to Name or Count Slaves: The Refusal of Identification
Chapter 5: Color, Race, and Origin of Slaves and Free Persons: "White," "Black," "Mulatto" in the Censuses of 1850 and 1860
Chapter 6: Color and Status of Slaves: Legal Definition and Census Practice
Chapter 7: Census Data for 1850 and 1860 and the Defeat of the South
Part III: The Rise of Immigration and the Racialization of Society: The Adaptation of the Census to the Diversity of the American Population (1850-1900)
Chapter 8: Modernization, Standardization, and Internationalization: From the Censuses of J. C. G. Kennedy (1850 and 1860) to the First Census of Francis A. Walker (1870)
Chapter 9: From Slavery to Liberty: The Future of the Black Race or Racial Mixing as Degeneration
Chapter 10: From "Mulatto" to the "One Drop Rule" (1870-1900)
Chapter 11: The Slow Integration of Indians into U.S. Population Statistics in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 12: The Chinese and Japanese in the Census: Nationalities That Are Also Races
Chapter 13: Immigration, Nativism, and Statistics (1850-1900)
Part IV: Apogee and Decline of Ethnic Statistics (1900-1940)
Chapter 14: The Disappearance of the "Mulatto" as the End of Inquiry into the Composition of the Black Population of the United States
Chapter 15: The Question of Racial Mixing in the American Possessions: National Norm and Local Resistance
Chapter 16: New Asian Races, New Mixtures, and the "Mexican" Race: Interest in "Minor Races"
Chapter 17: From Statistics by Country of Birth to the System of National Origins
Part V: The Population and the Census: Representation, Negotiation, and Segmentation (1900-1940)
Chapter 18: The Census and African Americans within and outside the Bureau
Chapter 19: Women as Census Workers and as Relays in the Field
Chapter 20: Ethnic Marketing of Population Statistics
Epilogue: The Fortunes of Census Classifications (1940-2000)
Conclusion
Notes
Abbreviations
Sources and Bibliography
Index
Note on Illustrations and Tables
Note on Terminology
Introduction
Part I: The Origins of the U.S. Census: From Enumeration of Voters and Taxpayers to "Social Statistics," 1790-1840
Chapter 1: The Creation of the Federal Census by the Constitution of the United States: A Political Instrument
Chapter 2: The First Developments of the National Census (1800-1830)
Chapter 3: The Census of 1840: Science, Politics and "Insanity" of Free Blacks
Part II: Slaves, Former Slaves, Blacks, and Mulattoes: Identification of the Individual and the Statistical Segregation of Populations (1850-1865)
Chapter 4: Whether to Name or Count Slaves: The Refusal of Identification
Chapter 5: Color, Race, and Origin of Slaves and Free Persons: "White," "Black," "Mulatto" in the Censuses of 1850 and 1860
Chapter 6: Color and Status of Slaves: Legal Definition and Census Practice
Chapter 7: Census Data for 1850 and 1860 and the Defeat of the South
Part III: The Rise of Immigration and the Racialization of Society: The Adaptation of the Census to the Diversity of the American Population (1850-1900)
Chapter 8: Modernization, Standardization, and Internationalization: From the Censuses of J. C. G. Kennedy (1850 and 1860) to the First Census of Francis A. Walker (1870)
Chapter 9: From Slavery to Liberty: The Future of the Black Race or Racial Mixing as Degeneration
Chapter 10: From "Mulatto" to the "One Drop Rule" (1870-1900)
Chapter 11: The Slow Integration of Indians into U.S. Population Statistics in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 12: The Chinese and Japanese in the Census: Nationalities That Are Also Races
Chapter 13: Immigration, Nativism, and Statistics (1850-1900)
Part IV: Apogee and Decline of Ethnic Statistics (1900-1940)
Chapter 14: The Disappearance of the "Mulatto" as the End of Inquiry into the Composition of the Black Population of the United States
Chapter 15: The Question of Racial Mixing in the American Possessions: National Norm and Local Resistance
Chapter 16: New Asian Races, New Mixtures, and the "Mexican" Race: Interest in "Minor Races"
Chapter 17: From Statistics by Country of Birth to the System of National Origins
Part V: The Population and the Census: Representation, Negotiation, and Segmentation (1900-1940)
Chapter 18: The Census and African Americans within and outside the Bureau
Chapter 19: Women as Census Workers and as Relays in the Field
Chapter 20: Ethnic Marketing of Population Statistics
Epilogue: The Fortunes of Census Classifications (1940-2000)
Conclusion
Notes
Abbreviations
Sources and Bibliography
Index