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Census and identity : the politics of race, ethnicity, and language in national census /

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Other Authors / Creators:	Kertzer, David I., 1948- Arel, Dominique, 1947-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:	New perspectives on anthropological and social demography.
Subjects:	Census > Methodology > Case studies. Race > Case studies. Ethnicity > Case studies. Linguistic demography > Case studies. Linguistic demography. Ethnicity. Race. Census > Methodology. Census. Case studies.

Table of Contents:

1. Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power
2. Racial categorization in censuses
3. Ethnic categorization in censuses: comparative observations from Israel, Canada, and the United States
4. Language categories in censuses: backward- or forward-looking?
5. The debate on resisting identity categorization in France
5. On counting, categorizing, and violence in
7. Identity counts: the Soviet legacy and the census in