Bringing institutions back in : how public institutions assess identity / Avigail Eisenberg and Will Kymlicka -- The challenge of census categorization in the post-civil rights era / Melissa Nobles -- Knowledge and the politics of ethnic identity and belonging in colonial and postcolonial states / Bruce J. Berman -- Defining indigeneity: representation and the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 in the Philippines / Villia Jefremovas and Padmapani L. Perez -- Indigenous rights in Latin America: how to classify Afro-descendants? / Juliet Hooker -- Domestic and international norms for assessing indigenous identity / Avigail Eisenberg -- The challenge of naming the other in Latin America / Victor Armony -- From immigrants to Muslims : shifting categories of the French model of integration / Eléonore Lépinard -- Beliefs and religion: categorizing cultural distinctions among East Asians / André Laliberté -- Assessing religious identity in law : sincerity, accommodation, and harm / Lori G. Beaman -- Reasonable accomodations and the subjective conception of freedom of conscience and religion / Jocelyn Maclure