National Colors

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National Colors is written by Mara Loveman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199337365 (ISBN 10) and 9780199337361 (ISBN 13).

National Colors analyzes the politics and practices of official ethnoracial classification in the censuses of nineteen Latin American countries over nearly two centuries. It shows that, in addition to domestic politics, the ways that states classify their citizens are strongly influenced by shifting international criteria for how to construct modern nations and promote national development.