Mara Loveman

National Colors

Racial Classification and the State in Latin America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the politics and practices of official ethnoracial classification in the censuses of nineteen Latin American countries over nearly two centuries. It shows that, in addition to domestic politics, the ways that states classify their citizens are strongly influenced by shifting international criteria for how to construct modern nations and promote national development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199337361
• ISBN-10: 0199337365
• Artikelnr.: 40444071

Autorenporträt

Mara Loveman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
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