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050	1	4	_aHA 181 _bB762d 2023
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100	1		_aBouk, Dan, _d1980- _942260
245	1	0	_aDemocracy's data : _bthe hidden stories in the U.S. census and how to read them / _cDan Bouk.
250			_aFirst paperback edition
264		1	_aNew York : _bMCD ; _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2023
300			_a xii, 362 pages : _billustrations, maps, facsimiles ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aStories in the data -- The question men -- Names and negotiations -- Partners -- Counting with friends -- Silences and white supremacy -- Uncle Sam v. Senator Tobey -- The inventory and the arsenal -- The data's depths.
520			_aThe census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories--you just have to know how to read them. In Democracy's Data, the data historian Dan Bouk examines the 1940 U.S. census, uncovering what those numbers both condense and cleverly abstract: a universe of meaning and uncertainty, of cultural negotiation and political struggle. He introduces us to the men and women employed as census takers, bringing us with them as they go door to door, recording the lives of their neighbors. He takes us into the makeshift halls of the Census Bureau, where hundreds of civil servants, not to mention machines, labored with pencil and paper to divide and conquer the nation's data. And he uses these little points to paint bigger pictures, such as of the ruling hand of white supremacy, the place of queer people in straight systems, and the struggle of ordinary people to be seen by the state as they see themselves-- _cProvided by publisher.
651		4	_aUnited States _xCensus _xHistory.
651		0	_aEstados Unidos _xCenso _xHistoria _942371
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