Indelible inequalities in Latin America : insights from history, politics, and culture / edited by Paul Gootenberg and Luis Reygadas ; foreword by Eric Hershberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gootenberg, Paul, 1954-

Reygadas, Luis.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--Latin America.

Equality.

Social classes--Latin America.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Building on Charles Tilly s relational framework for understanding enduring inequalities, scholars explore the processes that have combined to produce and reproduce inequalities in Latin America since the earliest days of European colonialism.

Contents:

Foreword: the paradox of inequality in Latin America / Eric Hershberg

Latin American inequalities : new perspectives from history, politics, and culture / Paul Gootenberg

The construction of Latin American inequality / Luis Reygadas

Health policy and the historical reproduction of class, race, and gender inequality in Peru / Christina Ewig

Incommensurable worlds of practice and value : a view from the shantytowns of Lima / Jeanine Anderson

Inequalities of political information and participation : the case of the 2002 Brazilian elections / Lucio Renno

Between Orishas and revolution : the expression of racial inequalities in post-Soviet Cuba / Odette Casamayor

How Latin American inequality becomes Latino inequality : a case study of Hudson Valley farmworkers / Margaret Gray

Afterword: Funes and the toolbox of inequality / Javier Auyero.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06561-4

9786613065612

0-8223-9290-9

OCLC:

673140479