Title How everyday forms of racial categorization survived imperialist censuses in Puerto Rico / Rebecca Jean Emigh, Patricia Ahmed, Dylan Riley

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 109 pages) Contents The Potential of Censuses to Transform Categorization -- Methods -- Spanish Mercantilist Censuses -- Spanish Imperialist Censuses -- US Imperialist Censuses -- Assessing explanations of transformations in categories Summary 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 Published twentieth-century censuses have been well studied, but this book also examines unpublished documents in previous centuries to understand the historical precursors of contemporary ones.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 the census categories rarely coincided with Puerto Ricans interests. Rebecca Jean Emigh is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Patricia Ahmed is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at South Dakota State University, USA. Dylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Crime & criminology. Social issues & processes. Sociology. Public administration. Social & political philosophy. Social Science -- Criminology. Social Science -- Sociology -- General. Political Science -- Public Policy -- General. Philosophy -- Social. Census Race relations Social conditions SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Census -- History Puerto Rico -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108960 Puerto Rico -- Race relations -- History Subject Puerto Rico Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Ahmed, Patricia, 1963- author. Riley, Dylan J., 1971- author. ISBN 9783030825188 3030825183

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