Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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
Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- 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
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- Census and IdentityThe Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses, pp. viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001