National colors : racial classification and the state in Latin America / Mara Loveman.

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"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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loveman, Mara, 1972-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, USA, [2014]
Subjects:
Ethnic groups > Latin America.
Ethnicity > Political aspects > Latin America.
Demographic surveys > Political aspects > Latin America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
HISTORY / Latin America / Central America.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative.
Latin America > Census > History.
Physical Description:xix, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
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  • 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.