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Publication details [#29217]

Kertzer, David I. and Dominique Arel. 2002. Census and identity: The politics of race, ethnicity and language in national censuses. Cambridge University Press. xii + 210 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

data collection | ethnicity | identity negotiation | race

ISBN

0-521-80823-5

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This volume compares the role of censuses and their race, ethnicity and language categorization, in the development of collective identities across a broad range of states.

Reviewed by

Castonguay, Charles. 2002. Review of $Census and identity: The politics of race, ethnicity and language in national censuses.