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Acknowledgments; Note on Illustrations and Tables; Note on Terminology; Introduction; Part I: The Origins of the U.S. Census: From Enumeration of Voters and Taxpayers to Social Statistics, 1790-1840; Chapter 1: The Creation of the Federal Census by the Constitution of the United States: A Political Instrument; Chapter 2: The First Developments of the National Census (1800-1830); Chapter 3: The Census of 1840: Science, Politics and Insanity of Free Blacks; Part II: Slaves, Former Slaves, Blacks, and Mulattoes: Identification of the Individual and the Statistical Segregation of Populations (1850-1865); Chapter 4: Whether to Name or Count Slaves: The Refusal of Identification; Chapter 5: Color, Race, and Origin of Slaves and Free Persons: White, Black, Mulatto in the Censuses of 1850 and 1860; Chapter 6: Color and Status of Slaves: Legal Definition and Census Practice; Chapter 7: Census Data for 1850 and 1860 and the Defeat of the South; Part III: The Rise of Immigration and the Racialization of Society: The Adaptation of the Census to the Diversity of the American Population (1850-1900); Chapter 8: Modernization, Standardization, and Internationalization: From the Censuses of J. C. G. Kennedy (1850 and 1860) to the First Census of Francis A. Walker (1870); Chapter 9: From Slavery to Liberty: The Future of the Black Race or Racial Mixing as Degeneration; Chapter 10: From Mulatto to the One Drop Rule (1870-1900); Chapter 11: The Slow Integration of Indians into U.S. Population Statistics in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 12: The Chinese and Japanese in the Census: Nationalities That Are Also Races; Chapter 13: Immigration, Nativism, and Statistics (1850-1900); Part IV: Apogee and Decline of Ethnic Statistics (1900-1940); Chapter 14: The Disappearance of the Mulatto as the End of Inquiry into the Composition of the Black Population of the United States; Chapter 15: The Question of Racial Mixing in the American Possessions: National Norm and Local Resistance; Chapter 16: New Asian Races, New Mixtures, and the Mexican Race: Interest in Minor Races; Chapter 17: From Statistics by Country of Birth to the System of National Origins; Part V: The Population and the Census: Representation, Negotiation, and Segmentation (1900-1940); Chapter 18: The Census and African Americans within and outside the Bureau; Chapter 19: Women as Census Workers and as Relays in the Field; Chapter 20: Ethnic Marketing of Population Statistics; Epilogue: The Fortunes of Census Classifications (1940-2000); Conclusion; Notes; Abbreviations; Sources and Bibliography; Index

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