Census and Identity : The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Paperback / softback
Edited by David I. (Brown University, Rhode Island) Kertzer, Dominique (Brown University, Rhode Island) Arel
Part of the New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography series
Paperback / softback
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The Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Language in National Censuses examines the ways that states have attempted to pigeon-hole the people within their boundaries into racial, ethnic, and language categories.
These attempts, whether through American efforts to divide the US population into mutually exclusive racial categories, or through the Soviet system of inscribing nationality categories on internal passports, have important implications not only for people's own identities and life chances, but for national political and social processes as well.
The book reviews the history of these categorizing efforts by the state, and offers a theoretical context for examining them, illustrating the case with studies from a range of countries.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2001
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- ISBN:9780521004275
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/11/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521004275