ISBN:
9780521808231
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (224 p.)
Series Statement:
New perspectives on anthropological and social demography v.No. 1
Parallel Title:
Print version Census and Identity : The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Census ; Methodology ; Case studies
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Ethnicity ; Case studies
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Linguistic demography ; Case studies
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Race ; Case studies
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 from a range of countries
Description / Table of Contents:
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;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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