02404cam a2200373 i 4500 22659973 BJBSDDR 20250528165456.0 ta 220616s2023 nyuab b 001 0 eng 2022019954 9781250872173 (pbk.) 1250872170 (pbk.) LBSOR/DLC rda eng DLC eng pcc n-us--- HA 181 B762d 2023 317.3 Bouk, Dan, 1980- 42260 Democracy's data : the hidden stories in the U.S. census and how to read them / Dan Bouk. First paperback edition New York : MCD ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 xii, 362 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Stories 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. The 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-- Provided by publisher. United States Census History. Estados Unidos Censo Historia 42371 lcc BK 123590 123590 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-05-26 0 HA 181 B762d 2023 00000190403 2025-05-26 00:00:00 1 2025-05-26 BK