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Counting Americans: How the US Census Classified the Nation
Schor, Paul (Associate Professor of American History, Associate Professor of American History, Universite Paris Diderot)
Counting Americans: How the US Census Classified the Nation
Schor, Paul (Associate Professor of American History, Associate Professor of American History, Universite Paris Diderot)
Tracing the evolutions of the categories used by the US census to classify Americans from the first census (1790) to 1940, this book shows the centrality of power relations and of racial ideologies in census-taking, with an emphasis on slavery, segregation, and immigration.
378 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 17, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9780190092474 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 378 |
Dimensions | 234 × 155 × 25 mm · 499 g |