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How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico

How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico

Emigh, Rebecca Jean
Ahmed, Patricia
Riley, Dylan

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030825175
ISBN13: 9783030825171
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 30 2021
Pages: 109
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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 Published twentieth-century censuses have been well studied, but this book also examines unpublished documents in previous centuries to understand the historical precursors of contemporary ones.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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