SOCI 139 Lecture Notes - Scientific Racism, Philosophical Explanations, Social Darwinism

Census seemed rather reflective of racial ideas that were already fully developed in society. (b) census actively worked in trying to shape those ideas (i) Census that seems to be actively trying to shape racial knowledge and ideas. (later, but both political: 1790 -1840 (a) not so busy to reflect ideas - just stated ideas. A period when society is undergoing many transformations due to abolition of slavery, due to more free movement from one region of the country to another. The census categories, in particular, the acute obsession with the category mulatto - being all instructions on how to count these categories of mulatto. Testifies the heightened anxiety of the us for the potential of race mixing. (ii) Theories postulated that the mulatto would eventually die out and were better off kept apart and not allowed to mix. (c) implications of structuring politics and society at the time: (i) (ii)