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

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Acknowledgments

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
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