Race, ethnicity, and power in Ecuador : the manipulation of mestizaje / Karem Roitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roitman, Karem, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mestizaje--Ecuador.

Mestizaje.

Elite (Social sciences)--Ecuador.

Elite (Social sciences).

Upper class--Ecuador.

Upper class.

Race discrimination--Ecuador.

Race discrimination.

Ecuador--Race relations.

Ecuador.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : FirstForumPress, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do today's Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador—a country struggling to recast its mestizo identity in the aftermath of dramatic indigenous uprisings—Karem Roitman reveals how the urban upper classes represent their ethnicity in ways that both hide discriminatory practices and impede social and economic mobility for the "other."

Contents:

""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Glossary of Key Concepts and Ethnic/Racial Terminology""; ""Note on Capitalization""; ""1-Introduction""; ""Ecuador as a Case Study""; ""Important Questions to Ask About Elites, Race, Development, and �Mixture�""; ""Overview of the Book""; ""Notes""; ""2-Foxes and Lions: Studying the Upper Classes""; ""A Historical Introduction to Ecuador""; ""Previous Research on the Upper Classes""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""3-Constructing Identities: The 2001 National Census""; ""The 2001 Census""

""Invisible Citizens: Afroecuadorians""""Mestizaje: Implications for �Pure� and �Mixed� Identities""; ""Montubios""; ""Responses to Exclusion and Liminal Identities""; ""Gender and Context""; ""The City as Context""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""6-The Port and Mestizaje: Ethnic Narratives in Guayaquil""; ""The Myths of Guayaquil""; ""The Port and Mestizaje""; ""Those Still Invisible""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""7-Learning Mestizaje: Ethnic Narratives in Quito""; ""Mestizaje as a Learned Identity""; ""Mestizaje as Acculturation and the Indigenous �Other�""

""Mestizaje as a Political Tool and the Pure Indian""""Seeking a Mestizo Identity""; ""Differentiating Among Mestizos""; ""Liminal Identities: Parallels Between Guayaquil and Quito""; ""Contrasting Guayaquil and Quito""; ""The Invisible 5 Percent""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""8-Ethnic Narratives and Socioeconomic Development""; ""Ecuador�s (Non-Existent?) Racial Problem""; ""Socioeconomic Networks""; ""Narratives and Networks""; ""Limited Socioeconomic Networks""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""9-Responsibility and Change""; ""Education as a Panacea""; ""The Responsibility for Change""

""Responsibility and the State""""Learning from Gender""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""10-Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix 1: Brief Chronology of Ecuadorian History""; ""Appendix 2: Methodological Overview""; ""A Native Researcher�s Perspective""; ""Access to My Research Population""; ""Ethical Concerns""; ""Research Tools""; ""Interview Guidelines""; ""2005 Interview Guidelines (Quito and Guayaquil)""; ""2003 Interview Guidelines (Quito)""; ""2003 Survey""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix 3: Statistical Data""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Book""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-156-3

OCLC:

929119956