... Population Censuses and Surveys (henceforth the Census Office), in a public relations document titled Why Do We Need a Census? explained: The census collects information about each person in the country and pro- duces a range of statistical...

...-born blacks used the 1991 National Census of the United Kingdom to construct their identities and legitimate their belonging and citizenship in Britain while resisting the census’s “other-ing” effect of marking blacks as non-British. Particularly...

...—very much like the subjective state they are said to measure. Taking all forms of home ownership together (the Census of Housing includes detached homes, apartments, trailers, tents, and boats in this...

... “in genetic terms all human beings, regardless of race, are 99.9% the same.” The following year, the US Census Bureau issued a press release clarifying that its racial categories “reflect a social defini- tion of race” that does “not conform to any...

... Native Americans who appeared on the US Census of 1900, the historic low point of the indigenous population in North America. This “Facebook of the dead” permits visitors to share stories about native peo- ples in 1900 and to upload relevant documents and...

.... Internal migration data from the 1997 census tend to support the view that migration to Ramallah may have been considerable. And when compared with the much larger cities of Hebron and Nablus, the uniqueness of Ramallah is amplified. The data reveal that less than half (48 percent...

... than practically, but later, the application of the music roll/punched-card idea returned in the work of Herman Hollerith, who devised a revolution- ary system for automating the tabulation of the 1890 U.S. Census. Hol- lerith studied both the Jacquard and player-piano systems in detail, and...

... and the still nascent second generation. Seventy-six percent of Mexicans in the Bronx, the borough where the two comités I researched are located, arrived after 1990, and few of them are citizens. While the U.S. Census does not control for those who might be legal permanent...

... Asia in the United States thus presents a peculiar geography. Classified under the category “Turkey in Asia” until the 1910 census, immigrants from the Ottoman provinces of Syria and Palestine were grouped with Greeks and Armenians. The...

... nements popularly known as the lal-bazaars. The enumeration of the prostitutes by religion and caste was taken up in the census of colonial India as early as 1872.5 The fuzziness of the com- munity that lived by sexual activity was fi nally erased as the prostitutes were reduced to a defi nable...

... Press 2018 disposability biopolitics mobility sanctuary When the US Census Bureau director abruptly quits his job, and just as the US minority will soon be the US majority, we might consider how the biopolitics of counting bodies facilitates the structural adjustment of social refuse...

... census, they drive the world computer picosecond by picosecond into new states. And in truth this formerly unremunerated labor is increasingly creating currency. Many currencies, not quite general forms of social wealth for as long as these currencies remain in their platformed silos, but becoming...

... the 2000 U.S. Census Bureau, the newly published Gay and Lesbian Atlas, and books like The Great Divide persuasively support the conclusion that our “gay friends in the red states” must be white, homo- normative gays and lesbians fixated on causes like gay marriage, gay...

... territory, taking the national census, building the museum. American Literary History 10.1 (spring): 185 -98. Nekola, Charlotte, and Paula Rabinowitz. Writing red: An anthology of American women writers, 1930-1940 . New York: City University, Feminist Press. Palestine National Council. 1988...

... colors onto each other. As Donna Haraway argues, Michael Jackson, the child symbol of black pride whom medical treatment made into a “white” adult, became the perfect symbol of the way race was supposed to (not) signify.42 At the same time, as the Census Bureau recorded, this was purely (or precisely...

... Michael Denning The representational work of these labor apparatuses cannot be underestimated; their censuses and standard-of-living surveys created the categories through which we still think about work. For example, the ILO helped codify the divide between the...

... document, and why? How are the archives arranged, and why? Which voices are submerged or silenced? Whether working with a diary or a census record, we must ask, “Why did this person tell this story this way?”1 My 2015 book, Mourning...

... practices into its operating systems. It’s all of social relations — the sordid history of “the human” — that has been encrypted into the machine architecture at the level of the code. All those punch cards perfected in the management of the colonial census and genocide. These relations go back to the women...