Race and Ethnicity in Latin American History

Name: Race and Ethnicity in Latin American History
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ISBN: 9780415991537

ISBN-10: 0415991536

ISBN-13: 9780415991537

Edition: 2011

Authors: Vincent Peloso

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The Spanish and Portuguese empires that existed in America for over three hundred years resulted in the creation of a new world population in which racial and ethnic distinctions were embedded in the discourse of power. Racial and ethnic identities were given to or claimed by people from birth, and the public acknowledgment of such identities by the Church and the colonial state placed people within a complex web of characteristics they carried through life. Race and ethnicity were only partially visual markers, but they were also culturally defined categories of social life in Latin America, subject to stringent codes drawn up during the colonial period. Vincent Peloso goes back to the…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 2/6/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682



Preface


Introduction



The Sixteenth-Century Encounter, 1492-1550



The Seventeenth-Century Decline, 1580-1715



The Transitional Eighteenth Century, 1715-1825



New States and Struggles for Ethno-Racial Hegemony, 1820-1910



Ethnicity, Race, and National Identity, 1890-1960



Ethnicity and Race in the Late Twentieth Century