[Brownbag] REMINDER, TODAY'S COLLOQUIUM: MARA LOVEMAN, “Ethnoracial Classification and the State in 21st-Century Latin America,” 2-3:30pm in 402 Barrows Hall (fwd)

[Liz Ozselcuk]

There will be no Demography Brown Bag on Wednesday this week, but here is 
a Sociology colloquium that may be of interest today:


COLLOQUIUM MONDAY, NOV 19: MARA LOVEMAN, “Ethnoracial Classification and the 
State in 21st-Century Latin America,” 2-3:30pm in 402 Barrows Hall


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*Ethnoracial Classification and the State in 21**^st **-Century **Latin 
America*

Over the last two decades, there has been a dramatic shift in the way Latin 
American states classify their populations on censuses. Abandoning color-blind 
approaches, states have adopted census questions that register the presence of 
indigenous and afro-descendent individuals within national populations. What 
explains the rise and spread of official ethnoracial classification in 21^st 
-century Latin America? Historical research on national censuses conducted by 
nineteen Latin American states across nearly two centuries reveals that the 
recent embrace of official ethnoracial classification in the region is not 
without precedent. Drawing on lessons from the 19^th century rise of racial 
data collection in Latin America, and its 20^th century decline, this talk will 
explain the re-emergence of official ethnoracial classification in Latin 
America in the 21^st century. Analyzing recent census reforms in comparative 
and historical perspective yields new insight into the general questions of 
when and why states engage in ethnoracial classification of their populations.

*Mara Loveman* is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of 
Wisconsin, Madison. She is a comparative-historical and political sociologist 
with broad interests in ethnoracial politics, nationalism, and the state. She 
is also a Latin Americanist who studies inequality and the politics of 
development in the region. Her research has appeared in leading journals, 
including /American Journal of Sociology/, /American Sociological Review/, 
/Comparative Studies in Society and History/, and /Social Science Research/, 
among others. She recently completed her first book, _National Colors: Racial 
Classification and the State in Latin America._Mara earned her PhD in Sociology 
from UCLA and her BA in Political Economy of Industrial Societies, Latin 
American Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese from UC Berkeley.