Shades of Citizenship
Subtitle: Race and the Census in Modern Politics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: July 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780804740135
Subjects: Census data; Civil rights & citizenship; Ethnography; Population & demography; Racism & racial discrimination; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; Census And General Statistics; Ethnic Sociology; Current Affairs; Race; Brazil; USA; Group identity; Minority Studies - General; Public Affairs & Administration; Social Science / Minority Studies; Census; United States; American
First sentence: Obtaining racial data would seem to be a straightforward process: the census asks a question; statisticians, demographers, and other properly trained professionals tabulate the responses.
Description: "This book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country's first census in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up through the 2000 census.

It sharply challenges certain presumptions that guide scholarly and popular studies, notably that census bureaus are (or designed to be) innocent bystanders in the arena of politics, and that racial data are innocuous demographic data."--BOOK JACKET.