Race & Nation in Modern Latin America
This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies of racial democracy have actually served to obscure discrimination, the book shows how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time across Latin America's political landscapes.\...
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Based on cutting-edge research, these 12 essays examine connections between race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-independence era. They reveal how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time and across the region's political landscapes.
Foreword: The First New NationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Racial Nations1Ch. 1Little Middle Ground: The Instability of a Mestizo Identity in the Andes, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries32Ch. 2Belonging to the Great Granadan Family: Partisan Struggle and the Construction of Indigenous Identity and Politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849-189056Ch. 3Searching for "Latin America": Race and Sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s87Ch. 4Imagining the Colonial Nation: Race, Gender, and Middle-Class Politics in Belize, 1888-1898108Ch. 5From Revolution to Involution in the Early Cuban Republic: Conflicts over Race, Class, and Nation, 1902-1906132Ch. 6Interracial Courtship in the Rio de Janeiro Courts, 1918-1940163Ch. 7From Mestizophilia to Biotypology: Racialization and Science in Mexico, 1920-1960187Ch. 8Race, Region, and Nation: Sonora's Anti-Chinese Racism and Mexico's Postrevolutionary Nationalism, 1920s-1930s211Ch. 9Racializing Regional Difference: Sao Paulo versus Brazil, 1932237Afterword: Race and Nation in Latin America: An Anthropological View263Select Bibliography283Contributors307Index311
\ From the Publisher"Well-written."\ — The Latin Americanist\ "[An] ambitious compilation of scholarly articles. . . . A noteworthy contribution to Latin American historiography. . . . A commendable effort."\ — Caribbean Studies Newsletter\ "The collection is well conceived, and the essays themselves represent some of the best work on the topic in an impressive range of Latin American and Caribbean contexts."\ — Ada Ferrer, author of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898\ \ \
