Race & Nation in Modern Latin America

by Appelbaum, Nancy P.; Macpherson, Anne S.; Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra

• ISBN13: 9780807827697
• ISBN10: 080782769X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Based on cutting-edge research, these 12 essays examine connections between race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-independence era. They reveal how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time and across the region's political landscapes.

Table of Contents

Foreword The First New Nations	vii
Thomas C. Holt
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction Racial Nations	1	(31)
Nancy P. Appelbaum
Anne S. Macpherson
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
Little Middle Ground: The Instability of a Mestizo Identity in the Andes, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	32	(24)
Sarah C. Chambers
Belonging to the Great Granadan Family: Partisan Struggle and the Construction of Indigenous Identity and Politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849--1890	56	(31)
James Sanders
Searching for ``Latin America'': Race and Sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s	87	(21)
Aims McGuinness
Imagining the Colonial Nation: Race, Gender, and Middle-Class Politics in Belize, 1888--1898	108	(24)
Anne S. Macpherson
From Revolution to Involution in the Early Cuban Republic: Conflicts over Race, Class, and Nation, 1902--1906	132	(31)
Lillian Guerra
Interracial Courtship in the Rio de Janeiro Courts, 1918--1940	163	(24)
Sueann Caulfield
From Mestizophilia to Biotypology: Racialization and Science in Mexico, 1920--1960	187	(24)
Alexandra Minna Stern
Race, Region, and Nation: Sonora's Anti-Chinese Racism and Mexico's Postrevolutionary Nationalism, 1920s--1930s	211	(26)
Gerardo Renique
Racializing Regional Difference: Sao Paulo versus Brazil, 1932	237	(26)
Barbara Weinstein
Afterword Race and Nation in Latin America: An Anthropological View	263	(20)
Peter Wade
Select Bibliography	283	(24)
Contributors	307	(4)
Index	311