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Counting Americans : how the US Census classified the nation /

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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.

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Main Author: Schor, Paul (Author)
Other Authors: Weiss, Lys Ann (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
United States > Census.
Race > Classification > History.
Ethnicity > United States > Classification > History.
Race > Classification > Histoire.
Ethnicité > États-Unis > Classification > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Statistics.
Census
Ethnicity > Classification
United States
Electronic books.
History
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