Race and Nation in Modern Latin America

Name: Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
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ISBN: 9780807854419

ISBN-10: 0807854417

ISBN-13: 9780807854419

Edition: 2003

Authors: Nancy P. Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, Peter Wade

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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. Framing the themes and questions explored in the volume, the editors' introduction also provides an overview of the current state of the interdisciplinary literature on race and nation-state formation.…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Nancy P. Appelbaum is assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Anne S. Macpherson is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Brockport.



Foreword: The First New Nations



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Racial Nations




Little Middle Ground: The Instability of a Mestizo Identity in the Andes, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries




Belonging to the Great Granadan Family: Partisan Struggle and the Construction of Indigenous Identity and Politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849-1890




Searching for "Latin America": Race and Sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s




Imagining the Colonial Nation: Race, Gender, and Middle-Class Politics in Belize, 1888-1898




From Revolution to Involution in the Early Cuban Republic: Conflicts over Race, Class, and Nation, 1902-1906




Interracial Courtship in the Rio de Janeiro Courts, 1918-1940




From Mestizophilia to Biotypology: Racialization and Science in Mexico, 1920-1960




Race, Region, and Nation: Sonora's Anti-Chinese Racism and Mexico's Postrevolutionary Nationalism, 1920s-1930s




Racializing Regional Difference: Sao Paulo versus Brazil, 1932



Afterword: Race and Nation in Latin America: An Anthropological View



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