Colonial resources targeted a tiny European poor while native dispossession went unmeasured.

Evidence

Why was so much time and labor devoted to a population that would not have filled a small hamlet in a colony that counted the native dispossessed in the hundreds of thousands? — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 831

Categorization

• QUESTION: The asymmetry between attention to European paupers and the native dispossessed — what epistemic work did the small number perform?