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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
Paul Schor ; translated by Lys Ann Weiss.
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.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]