Paperback / softback. New. 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 18th and 19th centuries up through the 2000 census. ISBN 0804740593 9780804740593 [GB]

Stanford University Press 2000 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p.

ISBN10: 0804740593, ISBN13: 9780804740593, [publisher: Stanford University Press, Palo Alto] Softcover First Edition Paperback. 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 are designed to be) innocent bystanders in the arena of politics, and that racial data are innocuous demographic data. Using previously overlooked historical sources, the book demonstrates that counting by race has always been a fundamentally political process, shaping in important ways the experiences and meanings of citizenship. This counting has also helped to create and to further ideas about race itself. The author argues that far from being mere producers of racial statistics, American and Brazilian censuses have been the ultimate insiders with respect to racial politics. This book reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses. It sharply challenges presumptions that census bureaux are innocent bystanders in the arena of politics and demonstrates that counting by race has always been a fundamentally political process. Shipping may ...

Stanford Univ Pr 2000 Softcover New 1st edition. 256 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches.

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