Gotkowitz Histories of Race and Racism

The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9433-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gotkowitz, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Racisms of the Present and the Past in Latin America / Laura Gotkowitz 1

Part I. The Uses of "Race" in Colonial Latin America

Unfixing Race / Kathryn Burns 57

Was There Race in Colonial Latin America?: Identifying Selves and Others in the Insurgent Andes / Sinclair Thomson 72

Part II. Racialization and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century

From Assimilation to Segregation: Guatemala, 1800–1944 / Arturo Taracena 95

The Census and the Making of a Social "Order" in Nineteenth-Century Boliva / Rossana Barragán 113

Forging the Unlettered Indian: The Pedagogy of Race in the Bolivian Andes / Brooke Larson 134

Part III. Racialization and Nationalist Mythologies in the Twentieth Century

Indian Ruins, National Origins: Tiwanaku and Indigenismo in La Paz, 1897–1933 / Seemin Qayum 159

Mestazaje, Distinction, and Cultural Presence: The View from Oaxaca / Deborah Poole 179

On the Origin of the "Mexican Race" / Claudio Lomnitz 204

Part IV. Antiracist Movements and Racism Today

Politics of Place and Urban Indigenas in Ecuador's Indigenous Movement / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfield 221

Education and Decolonization in the Work of the Aymara Activist Eduardo Leandro Nina Quispe / Esteban Ticona Alejo 240

Mistados, Cholos, and the Negation of Identity in the Guatemalan Highlands / Charles R. Hale 254

Authenticating Indians and Movements: Interrogating Indigenous Authenticity, Social Movements, and Fieldwork in Contemporary Peru / Maríia Elena García and José Antonio Lucero 278

Transgressions and Racism: The Struggle over a New Constitution in Bolivia / Andrés Calla and Khantuta Muruchi 299

Epilogue to "Transgressions and Racism": Making Sense of May 24th in Sucre: Toward an Antiracist Legislative Agenda / Pamela Calla and the Observatorio del Racismo 311

Part V. Concluding Comments

A Postcolonial Palimpsest: The Work Race Does in Latin America/ Florencia Mallon 321

Bibliography 337

Contributors 377

Index 381

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Gotkowitz is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880–1952, also published by Duke University Press.