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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2016
Print publication year:
2016
Online ISBN:
9781316442951
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316442951
Subjects:
Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Sociology
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Book description

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.

Awards

Winner, 2017 Race and Comparative Politics Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section, American Political Science Association

Honourable mention, 2017 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section, American Political Science Association

Winner, 2018 Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award, Canadian Politics Section, American Political Science Association

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