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

How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 115
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ISBN-10 : 9783030825188
ISBN-13 : 3030825183
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Download or read book How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico written by Rebecca Jean Emigh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Published twentieth-century censuses have been well studied, but this book also examines unpublished documents in previous centuries to understand the historical precursors of contemporary ones.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 Rican’s interests.


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