FROM COLONIAL DOMINATION TO THE MAKING OF THE NATION: ETHNO-RACIAL CATEGORIES IN CENSUSES AND REPORTS AND THEIR POLITICAL USES IN BELIZE, 19TH-20TH CENTURIES.

This paper presents an analysis of the processes of classification and racial-ethnic categorization of Belize's population during the 19th and 20th centuries, based on population censuses and government reports. We are not too interested in figures as such but in the categories of counting and their...

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Published in:	Caribbean Studies Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 31 - 62
Main Authors:	Cunin, Elisabeth, Hoffmann, Odile
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus Jul-Dec2013
Subjects:	Racialization Population Slavery Nationalism Cultural pluralism Belize politics & government
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