Race and nation in modern Latin America
By: edited by Nancy P. Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt ; with a foreword by Thomas C. Holt and an afterword by Peter Wade.
Contributors: Appelbaum, Nancy P.; Macpherson, Anne S.; Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Nationalism -- Latin America -- History; Race discrimination -- Latin America -- History; Ethnicity -- Latin America -- History; Identity (Psychology) -- Latin America; Social classes -- Latin America -- History; Man-woman relationships -- Latin America -- History; Latin America -- History -- 1830-; Latin America -- Race relations
Other titles: Race & nation in modern Latin America
Description: 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. Essays on the postindependence period in Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Peru consider how popular and elite racial constructs have developed in relation to one another and to processes of nation building. Contributors also examine how ideas regarding racial and national identities have been gendered and ask how racialized constructions of nationhood have shaped and limited the citizenship rights of subordinated groups.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Racial nations / Nancy P. Appelbaum, Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt; title: Little middle ground : the instability of a mestizo identity in the Andes, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sarah C. Chambers; title: Belonging to the great Granadan family : partisan struggle and the construction of indigenous identity and politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849-1890 / James Sanders; title: Searching for "Latin America" : race and sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s / Aims McGuinness; title: Imagining the colonial nation : race, gender, and middle-class politics in Belize, 1888-1898 / Anne S. Macpherson; title: From revolution to involution in the early Cuban Republic : conflicts over race, class, and nation, 1902-1906 / Lillian Guerra; title: Interracial courtship in the Rio de Janeiro courts, 1918-1940 / Sueann Caulfield; title: From mestizophilia to biotypology : racialization and science in Mexico, 1920-1960 / Alexandra Minna Stern; title: Race, region, and nation : Sonora's anti-Chinese racism and Mexico's   postrevolutionary nationalism, 1920s-1930s / Gerardo Renique; title: Racializing regional difference : Sao Paulo versus Brazil, 1932 / Barbara Weinstein; title: Race and nation in Latin America : An Anthropological View / Peter Wade.