Histories of Race and Racism
The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present
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Histories of Race and Racism
The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present
About This Book
Ninety percent of the indigenous population in the Americas lives in the Andean and Mesoamerican nations of Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. Recently indigenous social movements in these countries have intensified debate about racism and drawn attention to the connections between present-day discrimination and centuries of colonialism and violence. In Histories of Race and Racism, anthropologists, historians, and sociologists consider the experiences and representations of Andean and Mesoamerican indigenous peoples from the early colonial era to the present. Many of the essays focus on Bolivia, where the election of the country's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, sparked fierce disputes over political power, ethnic rights, and visions of the nation. The contributors compare the interplay of race and racism with class, gender, nationality, and regionalism in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. In the process, they engage issues including labor, education, census taking, cultural appropriation and performance, mestizaje, social mobilization, and antiracist legislation. Their essays shed new light on the present by describing how race and racism have mattered in particular Andean and Mesoamerican societies at specific moments in time.
Contributors
Rossana BarragĂĄn
Kathryn Burns
Andrés Calla
Pamela Calla
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
MarĂa Elena GarcĂa
Laura Gotkowitz
Charles R. Hale
Brooke Larson
Claudio Lomnitz
José Antonio Lucero
Florencia E. Mallon
Khantuta Muruchi
Deborah Poole
Seemin Qayum
Arturo Taracena Arriola
Sinclair Thomson
Esteban Ticona Alejo
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Racisms of the Present and the Past in Latin America
- Part I: The Uses of "Race" in Colonial Latin America
- Part II: Racialization and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Part III: Racialization and Nationalist Mythologies in the Twentieth Century
- Part IV: Antiracist Movements and Racism Today
- Part V: Concluding Comments
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index