Chapter Contents

  1. "Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power"
    David I. Kertzer and Dominique Arel
  2. "Racial categorization in censuses "
    Melissa Nobles
  3. "Ethnic categorization in censuses: comparative observations from Israel, Canada, and the United States"
    Calvin Goldscheider
  4. "Language categories in censuses: backward- or forward-looking?"
    Dominique Arel
  5. "The debate on resisting identity categorization in France"
    Alain Blum
  6. "On counting, categorizing, and violence in Burundi and Rwanda"
    Peter Uvin
  7. "Identity counts: the Soviet legacy and the census in Uzbekistan"
    David Abramson.