This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world. The classification of race and ethnicity by the state is a common way to organize and make sense of populations in many countries, from the national census and birth and death records, to identity cards and household surveys. As populations have grown, diversified, and become increasingly transnational and mobile, single and mutually exclusive categories struggle to adequately capture the complexity of identities and heritages in multicultural societies. State motivations for classification vary widely, and have shifted over time, ranging from subjugation and exclusion to remediation and addressing inequalities. The chapters in this handbook illustrate how differing histories and contemporary realities have led states to count and classify mixedness in different ways, for different reasons. This collection will serve as a key reference point on the international classification of mixed race and ethnicity for students and scholars across sociology, ethnic and racial studies, and public policy, as well as policy makers and practitioners.

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Zarine L. Rocha is Managing Editor of Current Sociology and the Asian Journal of Social Science. She specializes in issues of mixed race/mixed ethnic identity, narratives of belonging, multiculturalism, diversity and social conflict in Asia and the Pacific, and has published a number of books and articles on mixedness around the world.

Peter J. Aspinall is Emeritus Reader at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include around 80 papers on race and ethnicity and several jointly-authored books, including Mixed Race Identities (2013) and Mixed Race Britain in the Twentieth Century (2018). He was ONS National Convenor for the ethnicity question in the ONS 2001 Census Development Programme.****

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Measuring Mixedness Around the World; Zarine L. Rocha and Peter J. AspinallChapter 2. Race and Ethnicity Classification in British Colonial and Early Commonwealth Censuses; Anthony J. ChristopherPart 1: The AmericasChapter 3. Introduction: North and South America; Peter J. Aspinall and Zarine L. RochaChapter 4. The Canadian Census and Mixed Race: Tracking Mixed Race through Ancestry, Visible Minority Status, and Métis Population Groups in Canada; Danielle Kwan-Lanfond and Shannon WintersteinChapter 5. Methods of Measuring Multiracial Americans; Melissa R. HermanChapter 6. Mixed Race in Brazil: Classification, Quantification, and Identification; G. Reginald Daniel and Rafael J. HernándezChapter 7: Mexico: Creating Mixed Ethnicity Citizens for the Mestizo Nation; Pablo MateosChapter 8. Boundless Heterogeneity: 'Callaloo' Complexity and the Measurement of Mixedness in Trinidad and Tobago; Sue Ann BarrattChapter 9. Mixed Race in Argentina: Concealing Mixture in the 'White' Nation; Lea Natalia Geler and Mariela Eva RodríguezChapter 10. Colombia: The Meaning and Measuring of Mixedness; Peter WadePart 2: Europe and the UKChapter 11. Introduction: Europe and the United Kingdom; Peter J. Aspinall and Zarine L. RochaChapter 12. The Path to Official Recognition of 'Mixedness' in the United Kingdom.- Peter J. AspinallChapter 13. Measuring Mixedness in Ireland: Constructing Sameness and Difference; Elaine MoriartyChapter 14. The Identification of Mixed People in France: National Myth and Recognition of Family Migration Paths; Anne UnterreinerChapter 15. Controversial Approaches to Measuring Mixed Race in Belgium: The (In)visibility of Mixed Race Population; Laura OdassoChapter 16. The Weight of German History: Racial Blindness and Identification of People with a Migration Background; Anne UnterreinerChapter 17. Mixed, Merged and Split Ethnic Identities in the Russian Federation; Sergei V. SokolovskiyChapter 18. Mixedness as a Non-existent Category in Slovenia; Mateja SedmakChapter 19. Mixed Identities in Italy: A Country in Denial; Angelica Pesarini and Guido TintoriChapter 20. (Not) Measuring Mixedness in the Netherlands; Guno Jones and Betty de HartChapter 21. Mixed Race and Ethnicity in Sweden: A Sociological Analysis; Ioanna Blasko and Nikolay ZakharovPart 3: Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia and the CaucasusChapter 22. Introduction: Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and the Caucasus; Zarine. L. Rocha and Peter J. AspinallChapter 23. The Classification of South Africa's Mixed- Heritage Peoples 19102011: A Century of Conflation, Contradiction, Containment, and Contention: George T. H. Ellison and Thea de WetChapter 24. The Immeasurability of Racial and Mixed Identities in Mauritius; Rosabelle BoswellChapter 25. Neithor/Nor: The Complex Attachments of Zimbabwe's Coloureds; Kelly M. NimsChapter 26. Measuring Mixedness in Zambia: Creating and Erasing Coloureds in Zambia's Colonial and Post-Conolonial Census, 1921-2010; Juliette Milner-ThorntonChapter 27. Racial and Ethnic Mobilization and Classification in Kenya; Babere Kerata Chacha, Wanjiku Chiuri and Kenneth O. NyangenaChapter 28. Making the Invisible Visible: Experiences of Mixedness for Binational People in Morocco; Gwendolyn GilliéronChapter 29. Measuring Mixedness: A Case Study of the Kyrgyz Republic; Asel MyrzabekovaPart 4: &nbs...