National colors : racial classification and the state in Latin America /
"The era of official color-blindness in Latin America has come to an end. For the first time in decades, nearly every state in Latin America now asks their citizens to identify their race or ethnicity on the national census. Most observers approvingly highlight the historic novelty of these ref...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press, USA,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: Ethnoracial Classification and the State
- 2. Classifying Colonial Subjects
- 3. Enumerating Nations
- 4. The Race to Progress
- 5. Constructing Natural Orders
- 6. From Race to Culture
- 7. We All Count
- 8. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.