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The Schematic State - Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census (Hardcover)
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The Schematic State - Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census (Hardcover)
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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.
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