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National Colors : Racial Classification and the State in Latin America

Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014

Online-Ressource (398 p)

Englisch

Cover; National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; National Colors; CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Ethnoracial Classification and the State; Official Ethnoracial Classification; Naturalizing Social Divides; Making Nation-States; Defining and Redefining "the People"; The National Census; The Modern Census and the Modern State; Census Taking and Nation Making; The Census and the Science of Human Progress; Analytic Approach, Comparative Scope, and a Note on Terminology; Researching Race without Races

Widening the Comparative LensClarifying Terminology; Overview of Chapters; CHAPTER 2: Classifying Colonial Subjects; Counting the Colonial Population: Motives and Methods; Counting Heads, Constituting Difference; Ruling with Racial Categories; Resisting Racial Categories; Race and Republic; CHAPTER 3: Enumerating Nations; Official Ethnoracial Classification in Officially Color-Blind States; The Nation-State as Cultural Form; International Origins of the National Census; How to Count Human Beings: Constructing a Global Model; International Models and Latin American Nationhood

Adopting the Modern Census in Latin AmericaImplementing the International Model; Adapting the International Model; A Silent Adaptation of the International Model: The Question of Race; CHAPTER 4: The Race to Progress; Latin America through the Lens of Race Science; Crafting a Response; Documenting Racial Difference; Charting Racial Progress; Natural and Social Selection; Immigration; Race Mixture; The Race to Progress: Projecting a Brighter (Whiter) Future; CHAPTER 5: Constructing Natural Orders; Collecting Racial Statistics; Displaying Racial Statistics; Acts of Displacement

Acts of OmissionMaking the Nation Whole; CHAPTER 6: From Race to Culture; Official Explanations for Removing Race; Displacing Racial Determinism; How to Count Human Beings, Revisited; Racial Progress as Cultural Progress, and Vice Versa; Disappearing Indians; Disappeared Blacks; Conclusion: From Mestizaje to Multiculturalism; CHAPTER 7: "We All Count"; Recognizing Diversity in National Censuses, 1980-2010; Democratization and Diversification; From Mestizaje to Multiethnicity; Targeting the National Census; International Influence on National Census Reforms; Forms of International Influence

Holdouts and HarbingersCHAPTER 8: Conclusion: The International Politics of Ethnoracial Classification; Official Ethnoracial Classification in Historical Perspective; The New Politics of Official Ethnoracial Classification; Democratizing Data Production; Creating Constituencies for Categories; Developing with Identities; APPENDIX: The Database on Diversity in Latin American Censuses; Bbibliography; Index

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Print version: National Colors : Racial Classification and the State in Latin America

978-0-19-933736-1

978-0-19-933736-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-19-933737-8 ( : 100.89 (NL))

F1419.A1 .L69 2014

305.80098     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Demographic surveys ; Political aspects ; Latin America ; Ethnic groups ; Latin America ; Ethnicity ; Political aspects ; Latin America ; Latin America ; Census ; History ; Electronic books

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 reforms, but National Colors shows that official racial classification of citizens has a long history in Latin America. Through a comprehensive analysis of the politics and practice of official ethnoracial classification in the censuses of nineteen Latin American states across nearly two centuries, this book