Histories of Race and Racism

The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present

Bibliographic Data

ID20424560
EditorsLaura Gotkowitz
Year2011
Pages416
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHistories of Race and Racism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822394334
OpenAlexW2282956048
ISBN9780822394334
Open LibraryOL29648967M
LanguageEN
Citations received24

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 Barragan Kathryn Burns Andres Calla Pamela Calla Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld Maria Elena Garcia Laura Gotkowitz Charles R. Hale Brooke Larson Claudio Lomnitz Jose Antonio Lucero Florencia E. Mallon Khantuta Muruchi Deborah Poole Seemin Qayum Arturo Taracena Arriola Sinclair Thomson Esteban Ticona Alejo

Andean region · Art · Census · class · Colonialism · Cultural appropriation · ethnic rights · Ethnology · Evo Morales · Garcia · Gender · Geography · Humanities · Indigenous · Indigenous peoples · indigenous political power · Labor · Mesoamerica · mestizaje · Nation-building · Political science · Politics · Population · Race · Racism · Regionalism · Social mobilization · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Education · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Latin American history and culture · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Latin America · Race relations · race relations