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  title info:
    title: Counting Americans
    sub title: how the US Census classified the nation
  title info:
    title: Compter et classer. English
  name:
    name part: Schor, Paul
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Weiss, Lys Ann
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  note: Paul Schor ; translated by Lys Ann Weiss.
  note: 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.
  note: Translated from the French.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    genre: Census
  subject:
    topic: Race
    topic: Classification
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Ethnicity
    geographic: United States
    topic: Classification
    topic: History
  classification: HA181 .S3413 2017
  classification: 317.3072/3
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    title info:
      title: Counting Americans
    name:
      name part: Schor, Paul.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
    identifier: (DLC) 2016053521
  identifier: 9780199917860
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    record creation date: 170322
    record change date: 20250816224020.1
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