UID:
almafu_9960117638102883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-79700-7
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1-316-79748-1
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1-316-79756-2
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1-316-79764-3
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1-316-44295-0
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1-316-79772-4
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1-316-79796-1
Content:
By examining the political development of racial classifications on the national censuses of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, The Schematic State maps the changing nature of the census from an instrument historically used to manage and control racial populations to its contemporary purpose as an important source of statistical information, employed to monitor and rectify racial discrimination. Through a careful comparative analysis of nearly two hundred years of census-taking, it demonstrates that changes in racial schemas are driven by the interactions among shifting transnational ideas about race, the ways they are tempered and translated by nationally distinct racial projects, and the configuration of political institutions involved in the design and execution of census policy. This book argues that states seek to make their populations racially legible, turning the fluid and politically contested substance of race into stable, identifiable categories to be used as the basis of law and policy.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Nov 2016).
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Invitation -- Orientation -- Transnational biological racialism -- The death and resurrection of race -- The multicultural moment -- The multiracial moment -- The future of counting by race -- Appendix A: List of interviews/archival sources.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-57878-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-13098-0
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316442951
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