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Race & Nation in Modern Latin America »

Authors: Nancy P. Appelbaum, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt (Editor), Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt (Editor), Anne S. MacPherson (Editor), Peter Wade
ISBN-13: 9780807854419, ISBN-10: 0807854417
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Nancy P. Appelbaum

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt is associate professor of history at Syracuse University.

Book Synopsis

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.

	Foreword: The First New Nations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Racial Nations	1
Ch. 1	Little Middle Ground: The Instability of a Mestizo Identity in the Andes, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	32
Ch. 2	Belonging to the Great Granadan Family: Partisan Struggle and the Construction of Indigenous Identity and Politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849-1890	56
Ch. 3	Searching for "Latin America": Race and Sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s	87
Ch. 4	Imagining the Colonial Nation: Race, Gender, and Middle-Class Politics in Belize, 1888-1898	108
Ch. 5	From Revolution to Involution in the Early Cuban Republic: Conflicts over Race, Class, and Nation, 1902-1906	132
Ch. 6	Interracial Courtship in the Rio de Janeiro Courts, 1918-1940	163
Ch. 7	From Mestizophilia to Biotypology: Racialization and Science in Mexico, 1920-1960	187
Ch. 8	Race, Region, and Nation: Sonora's Anti-Chinese Racism and Mexico's Postrevolutionary Nationalism, 1920s-1930s	211
Ch. 9	Racializing Regional Difference: Sao Paulo versus Brazil, 1932	237
	Afterword: Race and Nation in Latin America: An Anthropological View	263
	Select Bibliography	283
	Contributors	307
	Index	311