• DOI:10.1017/S0898588X08000047
Corpus ID: 146658895

Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race

@article{Hochschild2008RacialRA,
  title={Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race},
  author={J. Hochschild and B. Powell},
  journal={Studies in American Political Development},
  year={2008},
  volume={22},
  pages={59 - 96}
}

• J. Hochschild, B. Powell
• Published 2008
• Sociology
• Studies in American Political Development

Between 1850 and 1930, demographic upheaval in the United States was connected to reorganization of the racial order. Socially and politically recognized boundaries between groups shifted, new groups emerged, others disappeared, and notions of who belonged in which category changed. All recognized racial groups—blacks, whites, Indians, Asians, Mexicans and others—were affected. This article investigates how and why census racial classification policies changed during this period, only to… Expand