@article{fdi:010069626, title = {{F}rom colonial domination to the making of the nation : ethno-racial categories in cesuses and reports and their political uses in {B}elize, 19th-20th centuries}, author = {{C}unin, {E}lisabeth and {H}offmann, {O}dile}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{T}his paper presents an analysis of the processes of classification and racial-ethnic categorization of {B}elize's population during the 19th and 20th centuries, based on population censuses and government reports. {W}e are not too interested in figures as such but in the categories of counting and their evolution, as indicators of the political rationale of building a colonial and later a national society. {W}hile the censuses for the 19th century relate to different forms of population management (transition from slavery to freedom, affirmation or denial of ethnic and racial diversity), the administrative reports paint a static and stereotyped demographic-territorial model as a tool of the political project. {F}or the 20th century, we analyze the difficult road to independence and the changes introduced by the new {B}elizean state (categories, methods) in the process of creating a "national identity."}, keywords = {{ANTHROPOLOGIE} {POLITIQUE} ; {HISTOIRE} ; {RECENSEMENT} ; {DEMOGRAPHIE} ; {DIFFERENCIATION} ; {HISTOIRE} {COLONIALE} ; {NATION} ; {POLITIQUE} {SOCIALE} ; {RACIALISATION} ; {BELIZE}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{C}aribbean {S}tudies}, volume = {41}, numero = {2}, pages = {31--60}, ISSN = {0008-6533}, year = {2013}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010069626}, }