Census and Identity : the Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses.

Many countries pigeon-hole people within racial, ethnic, and language categories - with important implications for people's own identities and life chances, and for national political and social processes. This book reviews categorizing efforts by the state, illustrating the case with studies f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kertzer, David I., 1948-
Otros Autores: Arel, Dominique, 1959-, Goldscheider, Frances, Hogan, Dennis P., Caldwell, Jack, Cherlin, Andrew J., 1948-, Fricke, Thomas E. (Thomas Earl), 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Colección:New perspectives on anthropological and social demography.
Temas:
Census.
Ethnicity > Case studies.
Linguistic demography > Case studies.
Recensement.
Ethnicité > Études de cas.
Démographie linguistique > Études de cas.
census records.
Census
Ethnicity
Linguistic demography
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power; 2 Racial categorization and censuses; 3 Ethnic categorizations in censuses: comparative observations from Israel, Canada, and the United States; 4 Language categories in censuses: backward-or forward-looking?; 5 Resistance to identity categorization in France; 6 On counting, categorizing, and violence in Burundi and Rwanda; 7 Identity counts: the Soviet legacy and the census in Uzbekistan; Index.

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