{"id":44721,"date":"2015-12-23T00:23:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T00:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44721"},"modified":"2015-12-23T00:23:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T00:23:51","slug":"the-racialization-of-legal-categories-in-the-first-u-s-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44721","title":{"rendered":"The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/social_science_history\/summary\/v039\/39.4.emigh.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/social_science_history\" target=\"_blank\">Social Science History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/social_science_history\/toc\/ssh.39.4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 485-519<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucla.edu\/faculty\/rebecca-jean-emigh\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Jean Emigh<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/dylan-john-riley\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Riley<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:patricia.ahmed@sdstate.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Patricia Ahmed<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>South Dakota State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper examines the demographic categories in the first few US censuses, which are asymmetrical combinations of race and legal status not mandated by the US Constitution. State actors explicitly introduced and revised these categories; however, these state actors successfully introduced these categories into the census only when they were already widespread throughout society. Thus, more generally, the paper points to flaws in a \u201cstate-centered\u201d view of information gathering, which stresses how state actors create census categories that, in turn, shape social conditions as they become subsequently widespread. In contrast, this paper suggests that politicians draw on widespread social categories when creating census categories, showing how state and social influences interact to create the information in censuses.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/social_science_history\/v039\/39.4.emigh.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census Social Science History Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 485-519 Rebecca Jean Emigh, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles Dylan Riley, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Patricia Ahmed South Dakota State University This paper examines the demographic categories in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,459,8,394,20],"tags":[22366,22367,22368,22369,22370],"class_list":["post-44721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-dylan-john-riley","tag-dylan-riley","tag-patricia-ahmed","tag-rebecca-jean-emigh","tag-social-science-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44722,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44721\/revisions\/44722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}