Counting Americans : how the US Census classified the nation / Paul Schor ; translated by Lys Ann Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schor, Paul, author.

Contributor:

Weiss, Lys Ann, translator.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Standardized Title:

Compter et classer. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Classification.

History.

Race.

United States--Census.

United States.

Race--Classification--History.

Ethnicity--United States--Classification--History.

Genre:

Census data.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 356 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Counting Americans; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Illustrations; List of Tables; Note on Terminology; Introduction; Part I The Origins of the US Census: From Enumeration of Voters and Taxpayers to "Social Statistics," 1790-​1840; 1. The Creation of the Federal Census by the Constitution of the United States: A Political Instrument; 2. The First Developments of the National Census (1800-​1830); 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)4. Whether to Name or Count Slaves: The Refusal of Identification; 5. Color, Race, and Origin of Slaves and Free Persons: "White," "Black," and "Mulatto" in the Censuses of 1850 and 1860; 6. Color and Status of Slaves: Legal Definition and Census Practice; 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)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); 9. From Slavery to Freedom: The Future of the Black Race or Racial Mixing as Degeneration; 10. From "Mulatto" to the "One Drop Rule" (1870-​1900); 11. The Slow Integration of Indians into US Population Statistics in the Nineteenth Century

12. The Chinese and Japanese in the Census: Nationalities That Are Also Races13. Immigration, Nativism, and Statistics (1850-​1900); Part IV Apogee and Decline of Ethnic Statistics (1900-​1940); 14. The Disappearance of the "Mulatto" as the End of Inquiry into the Composition of the Black Population of the United States; 15. The Question of Racial Mixing in the American Possessions: National Norms and Local Resistance; 16. New Asian Races, New Mixtures, and the "Mexican" Race: Interest in "Minor Races"; 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)18. The Census and African Americans Within and Outside the Bureau; 19. Women as Census Workers and as Relays in the Field; 20. Ethnic Marketing of Population Statistics; Epilogue: The Fortunes of Census Classifications (1940-​2000); Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Sources and Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Originally published as: Compter et classer : Histoire des recensements américains by Paul Schor, Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2017).

Translated from the French.

Other Format:

Print version: Schor, Paul. Counting Americans.

ISBN:

9780199917860

0199917868

Publisher Number:

99972834562

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