Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
Contributors: Peter Wade (Afterword); Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt (Editor)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807827697
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Ethnography; Nationalism; Latin America - General; Ethnicity; Politics/International Relations; History - General History; Latin America; General; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Race discrimination; Race relations; 1830-; History
First sentence: In contrast to Mesoamerican nations, in the Andes positive discourses of mestizaje have been relatively weak and received official state sanction only in the middle of the twentieth century, if at all.