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How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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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unpublished documents in previous centuries to understand the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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