Shades of citizenship : race and the census in modern politics
"This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country's first census in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up through the 2000 census. It sharply challenges certain presumptions that guide scholarly and popular studies, notably that census bureaus are (or designed to be) innocent bystanders in the arena of politics, and that racial data are innocuous demographic data."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2000
Census
xiv, 248 pages ; 23 cm
9780804740135, 9780804740593, 0804740135, 0804740593
43569465
Race, censuses, and citizenship
"These tables present plain matters of fact" : race categories in U.S. censuses
"With time ..., they will be white" : Brazilian censuses and national identity
Identities in search of bodies : popular campaigns around censuses
Counting by race : more than numbers