How "Indians" think : colonial indigenous intellectuals and the question of critical race theory / Gonzalo Lamana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamana, Gonzalo, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Vega, Garcilaso de la.

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe, active 1613--Criticism and interpretation.

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe.

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe, active 1613.

Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616.

Indians of South America--Andes Region--Intellectual life--17th century.

Indians of South America.

Racism--Peru--History--17th century.

Racism.

Race relations.

History.

Intellectual life.

Criticism and interpretation.

Peru--Race relations--History--17th century.

Peru.

Andes Region.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Colonial indigenous intellectuals and the question of critical race theory

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This book argues that Indigenous thinkers of colonial Peru penned the Americas' first documents on critical race theory"-- Provided by publisher.

"The conquest and colonization of the Americas marked the beginning of a social, economic, and cultural change of global scale. Most of what we know about how colonial actors understood and theorized this complex historical transformation comes from Spanish sources. This makes the few texts penned by Indigenous intellectuals in colonial times so important: they allow us to see how some of those who inhabited the colonial world in a disadvantaged position thought and felt about it. This book shines light on Indigenous perspectives through a novel interpretation of the works of the two most important Amerindian intellectuals in the Andes, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Building on but also departing from the predominant scholarly position that views Indigenous-Spanish relations as the clash of two distinct cultures, Gonzalo Lamana argues that Guaman Poma and Garcilaso were the first Indigenous activist intellectuals and that they developed post-racial imaginaries four hundred years ago. Their texts not only highlighted Native peoples' achievements, denounced injustice, and demanded colonial reform, but they also exposed the emerging Spanish thinking and feeling on race that was at the core of colonial forms of discrimination. These authors aimed to alter the way colonial actors saw each other and, as a result, to change the world in which they lived"-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Part I Spanish Ideas about Indians p. 25

1 A Material Intelligence p. 27

Part II Guam an Poma De Ayala's Nueva Corónica Y Buen Gobierno p. 59

2 History, Race, and Grace for People Who See the World Through Whiteness p. 61

3 The Colonial Present Explained to Blind Men Upside Down p. 98

Part III Garcilaso De La Vega's Comentarios Reales De Los Incas p. 121

4 The Real Commentaries of the Incas; or What We Really Think about What You Think and What We Do with It p. 123

5 Underworld Stories and Unthinkable Indians p. 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816539666

0816539669

0816540268

9780816540266

OCLC:

1096515307