Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses (New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses (New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography) Book

At the cutting edge of this research is the question of the role played by the state in certifying and promulgating certain racial, ethnic, and language identities. Tremendous popular interest has also been generated by these questions, especially as attempts to get people to place themselves in racial and ethnic categories in the census. This is the first book to look at the issue of state efforts at racial, ethic, and language categorization through national census. It is written by scholars in a variety of different disciplines.Read More

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    This study 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 U.S. 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, offers a theoretical context for examining them, and illustrates the case with studies from a range of countries.

  • 0521004276
  • 9780521004275
  • 15 November 2001
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
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