Race, colonialism, and social transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Jerome Branche.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Branche, Jerome.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Latin American.

National characteristics, Caribbean.

Social change--Latin America.

Social change--Caribbean Area.

Latin America--Race relations.

Caribbean Area--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An important contribution to the ongoing scholarly examination and debate about race, identity, and citizenship in the Caribbean and Latin America

Contents:

From meticulous oblivion to unexpected return : the variable fate of indigenous people in the Uruguayan imaginary of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries / Gustavo Verdesio

Coloring the social structure : racial politics during the Duvalierist dictatorial regime of 1957-87 / Carolle Charles

The imagined republic of Puerto Rican populism in world-historical context : the poetics of plantation fantasies and the petit-coloniality of Criollo Blanchitude, 1914-48 / Kelvin Santiago-Valles

Racism and its masks in Brazil : on racism and the idea of harmony / Gislene Aparecida dos Santos

Revolutionary spiritualities in Chiapas today : immanent history and the comparative frame in subaltern studies / Jose Rabasa

New cartographies of the Bolivian state in the context of the Constituent Assembly, 2006-2007 / Denise Y. Arnold

Savage emergence : toward a decolonial Aymara methodology for cultural survival / Marcia Stephenson

Race, ethnicity, and nation in Manuel Zapata Olivella's Levantate mulato! : rethinking identity in Latin America / Laurence Prescott

Afro-centrism as an intercultural force in Ecuador / Michael Handelsman

Creole counterdiscourses and French departmental hegemony : reclaiming "here" from "there" / H. Adlai Murdoch.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-3823-5

0-8130-3994-0

OCLC:

746746854