Les catégories statistiques utilisées dans les DOM-TOM depuis le début de la présence française

Resistance to identity categorization in France

“…Kamel Kateb (1998a) 193 territory is issued a separate questionnaire, not only because each one has a different administrative status, but mostly to accommodate political considerations and negotiations specific to each territory. Rallu (1998) has shown how the colonial conception of ethnic questions has produced various responses or approaches reflecting the interplay of diverse forces. In all of the départements abroad, the questionnaire used is the same as that for metropolitan France.…”

“…In some cases, questions are introduced and later removed. In others, the census is interested only in the pure "races," and ignores the mixed population (Rallu, 1998). In two cases in Polynesia, in 1996, questions on ethnicity were dropped.…”

“…The debate thus spread in different directions. It grew further with the publication of a work that was very critical of the survey (Le Bras, 1998a and At the start, there were five main criticisms leveled against the ethnic approach that was presented in Faire France (especially in: Bertaux, 1997;Blum, 1998;Rallu, 1998;Héran 1998;and Richard, 1999b). I will summarize these, before discussing the responses to these criticisms.…”

Raça e nação em questão na França contemporânea

“…Esses últimos eram separados em "selvagens", "mulatos" e "negros". A condição de "livre" ou "escravo" poderia também ser mencionada, dependendo do registro 157 (RALLU, 1998).…”

“…Na Guiana Francesa, entre 1954 e 1961, eram ainda empregadas as categorias "indígena" e "negro". Para aprofundar a categorização etnicorracial nas antigas colônias francesas, ver Rallu (1998). 158 Para uma análise exaustiva das categorias coloniais na Argélia, ver Kateb (1998).…”