How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in Puerto Rico

by Rebecca Jean Emigh

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030825175
• ISBN13: 9783030825171
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"