Pauperism commissions in the colonies redirected their moral calculus from poverty to race.

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• Pauperism commissions were diverted by racial classification anxieties (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial poor-relief commissions substituted race for class in their moral calculus (similarity 0.81)
• The 1901 Pauperism Commission actively produced race categories through classification (similarity 0.81)
• Agricultural colonies, penal colonies, and colonial settlement were conceptually linked projects (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial commissions replaced poverty with race as their core concern (similarity 0.79)
• A colonial welfare commission was paralyzed by its own contradictory mandate. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial commissions actively produced racial social categories rather than describing them. (similarity 0.78)
• Racialized colonial knowledge rested on flexible strategic attributes, not fixed essences (similarity 0.78)