Histories of race and racism [electronic resource] : the Andes and Mesoamerica from colonial times to the present / Laura Gotkowitz, ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : histories of race and racism in the Andes and Mesoamerica / Laura Gotkowitz -- Unfixing race / Kathryn Burn -- Was there race in colonial Latin America? : identifying selves and others in the insurgent Andes / Sinclair Thomson -- From assimilation to segregation : Guatemala, 1800-1944 / Arturo Taracena -- The census and the making of a social "order" in nineteenth-century Bolivia / Rossana Barragán -- Forging the unlettered Indian : the pedagogy of race in the Bolivian Andes / Brooke Larson -- Indian ruins, national origins : Tiwanaku and indigenismo in La Paz, 1897-1933 / Seemin Qayum -- Mestizaje, distinction, and cultural presence : the view from Oaxaca / Deborah Poole -- On the origin of the "Mexican race" / Claudio Lomnitz -- Politics of place and urban indígenas in Ecuador's indigenous movement / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld -- Education and decolonization in the work of the Aymara activist Eduardo Leandro Nina Quispe / Esteban Ticona Alejo -- Mistados, cholos, and the negation of identity in the Guatemalan highlands / Charles R. Hale -- Authenticating Indians and movements : interrogating indigenous authenticity, social movements, and fieldwork in contemporary Peru / María Elena García and Jose Antonio Lucero -- Transgressions and racism: the struggle over a new constitution in Bolivia / Andres Calla and Khantuta Muruchi -- Epilogue to "Transgressions and racism": making sense of May 24th in Sucre : toward an antiracist legislative agenda / Pamela Calla and the Observatorio del Racismo -- A postcolonial palimpsest : the work race does in Latin America / Florencia E. Mallon.

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