Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas » (New Edition)

Courtney Jung is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition (2000) which was the winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2001.

Traces the transformation of indigenous politics in Mexico, linking indigenous identity directly to state formation.

Introduction 1

1 Stepping behind the claims of culture: constructing identities, constituting politics 34

2 Internal colonialism in Mexican state formation 79

3 "The politics of small things" 117

4 From peasant to indigenous: shifting the parameters of politics 147

5 The politics of indigenous rights 183

6 Critical liberalism 233

Appendix Tables - indigenous population 295

Bibliography 301

Index 347