How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico
Emigh, Rebecca Jean, Ahmed, Patricia, Riley, Dylan
Produktnummer:
18720013d3b1e84a05a377ec91e0d31711
Autor: | Ahmed, Patricia Emigh, Rebecca Jean Riley, Dylan |
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Themengebiete: | Latin American Studies Puerto Rico census classification colonialism comparative sociology historical sociology imperialism official statistics state information |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 30.09.2021 |
EAN: | 9783030825171 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 109 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
Produktinformationen "How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico"
This book examines the history of racial classifications in Puerto Rico censuses, starting with the Spanish censuses and continuing through the US ones. Because Puerto Rican censuses were collected regularly over hundreds of years, they are fascinating “test cases” to see what census categories might have been available and effective in shaping everyday ones. Published twentieth-century censuses have been well studied, but this book also examines unpublished documents in previous centuries to understand the historical precursors of contemporary ones. State-centered theories hypothesize that censuses, especially colonial ones, have powerful transformative effects. In contrast, this book shows that such transformations are affected by the power and interests of social actors, not the strength of the state. Thus, despite hundreds of years of exposure to the official dichotomous and trichotomous census categories, these categories never replaced the continuous everyday ones because thecensus categories rarely coincided with Puerto Rican’s interests.

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