Histories of race and racism : the Andes and Mesoamerica from colonial times to the present / Laura Gotkowitz, ed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotkowitz, Laura.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--Latin America--History.

Racism.

Race--History.

Race.

Latin America--Race relations--History.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day.

Contents:

Introduction : histories of race and racism in the Andes and Mesoamerica / Laura Gotkowitz

Unfixing race / Kathryn Burn

Was there race in colonial Latin America? : identifying selves and others in the insurgent Andes / Sinclair Thomson

From assimilation to segregation : Guatemala, 1800-1944 / Arturo Taracena

The census and the making of a social "order" in nineteenth-century Bolivia / Rossana Barragán

Forging the unlettered Indian : the pedagogy of race in the Bolivian Andes / Brooke Larson

Indian ruins, national origins : Tiwanaku and indigenismo in La Paz, 1897-1933 / Seemin Qayum

Mestizaje, distinction, and cultural presence : the view from Oaxaca / Deborah Poole

On the origin of the "Mexican race" / Claudio Lomnitz

Politics of place and urban indígenas in Ecuador's indigenous movement / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

Education and decolonization in the work of the Aymara activist Eduardo Leandro Nina Quispe / Esteban Ticona Alejo

Mistados, cholos, and the negation of identity in the Guatemalan highlands / Charles R. Hale

Authenticating Indians and movements : interrogating indigenous authenticity, social movements, and fieldwork in contemporary Peru / María Elena García and José Antonio Lucero

Transgressions and racism: the struggle over a new constitution in Bolivia / Andrés Calla and Khantuta Muruchi

Epilogue to "Transgressions and racism": making sense of May 24th in Sucre : toward an antiracist legislative agenda / Pamela Calla and the Observatorio del Racismo

A postcolonial palimpsest : the work race does in Latin America / Florencia E. Mallon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record

ISBN:

9786613431172

9781283431170

1283431173

9780822394334

0822394332

OCLC:

770876087