Download or read book National Colors written by Mara Loveman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.