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Secuencia

On-line version ISSN 2395-8464Print version ISSN 0186-0348

Abstract

CUNIN, Elisabeth  and  HOFFMANN, Odile. From Colonial Domination to the Forging of a Nation: Ethnic-racial Categories in Censuses and Reports and their Political Uses in Belize, 19th-20th Centuries. Secuencia [online]. 2012, n.82, pp.153-174. ISSN 2395-8464.

This text presents an analysis of the processes of erhnic-racial classification and categorization of the population of Belize in the 19th and 20th centuries, based on demographic censuses and government reports. We are not so much interested in figures as such as in the counting categories and their evolution, as indicators of the political logics of constructing a colonial and then a national society. By the 19th century, censuses reflect the different ways of managing the population (transition from slavery to freedom, affirmation or denial of ethnic-racial diversity), the administrative reports outline a static demographic-territorial model stereotypes as a tool for political management. In the 20th century, they analyze the difficult road co independence and the changes introduced by the new Belize state (categories, methodology, actors) in the process of constructing a "national identity."

Keywords : Racialization; census categories; Belize; politics of difference; nation.

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