This thesis focuses on examining efficiency and spatial organization at the Mumma and Poffenberger farms at Antietam National Battlefield Park in Maryland, the Nicholas Gibbs Farmstead in Tennessee, and the Shaffer Farm site in Western Pennsylvania. By using census records from …
A comparison of the political development of census questions about race, demonstrating how ideas and politics shape racial boundaries.
Invitation -- Orientation -- Transnational biological racialism -- The death and resurrection of race -- The multicultural moment -- The multiracial moment -- The future of counting by race -- Appendix A: List of interviews/archival sources
Invitation -- Orientation -- Transnational biological racialism -- The death and resurrection of race -- The multicultural moment -- The multiracial moment -- The future of counting by race -- Appendix A: List of interviews/archival sources
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 t…
"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 …
A comparison of the political development of census questions about race, demonstrating how ideas and politics shape racial boundaries.
"The British census plays an unquestioned role in governance today, and the recent digitization of 19th-century census data has allowed millions of amateur and professional researchers to visualize their national and familial past. This study tells the tangled story of how the c…
