The 1901 Pauperism Commission actively produced race categories through classification

Evidence

Unlike the earlier commissions, the report of the European Pauperism Commission of 1901 was a history-rewriting project, one that called up the past in selective and strategic ways. For one, it was heralded as a landmark public statement, committed to objectivity, to fact-collection and comparison—the earlier commission made no such claims. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 887 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The commission’s causal narrative held racial characteristics durable and impervious to history; The commission redefined pauperism around racial status to defuse resistance to counting.; Pauperism commissions in the colonies redirected their moral calculus from poverty to race. (+2 more)

Related

• The commission redefined pauperism around racial status to defuse resistance to counting. (similarity 0.90)
• The 1901 commission selectively rewrote colonial history under a claim of objectivity (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial commissions actively produced racial social categories rather than describing them. (similarity 0.85)
• Pauperism commissions were diverted by racial classification anxieties (similarity 0.82)
• Pauperism commissions in the colonies redirected their moral calculus from poverty to race. (similarity 0.80)
• A colonial welfare commission was paralyzed by its own contradictory mandate. (similarity 0.80)
• The commission defined European pauperism by race-based expectations of living standards (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Pauperism commissions in the colonies redirected their moral calculus from poverty to race. #expands (0.60)
• The 1901 commission selectively rewrote colonial history under a claim of objectivity #expands (0.60) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 887
• In Java’s colonial commissions the moral calculus of pauperism shifted from wealth to race #expands (0.55)