Ninety percentage of the indigenous inhabitants within the Americas lives within the Andean and Mesoamerican countries of Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. lately indigenous social activities in those nations have intensified debate approximately racism and drawn cognizance to the connections among present-day discrimination and centuries of colonialism and violence. In
Histories of Race and Racism, anthropologists, historians, and sociologists reflect on the studies and representations of Andean and Mesoamerican indigenous peoples from the early colonial period to the current. a number of the essays specialise in Bolivia, the place the election of the country’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, sparked fierce disputes over political energy, ethnic rights, and visions of the state. The individuals evaluate the interaction of race and racism with classification, gender, nationality, and regionalism in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. within the technique, they have interaction concerns together with exertions, schooling, census taking, cultural appropriation and function, mestizaje, social mobilization, and antiracist laws. Their essays shed new mild at the current by way of describing how race and racism have mattered specifically Andean and Mesoamerican societies at particular moments in time.
Contributors
Rossana Barragán
Kathryn Burns
Andrés Calla
Pamela Calla
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
María Elena García
Laura Gotkowitz
Charles R. Hale
Brooke Larson
Claudio Lomnitz
José Antonio Lucero
Florencia E. Mallon
Khantuta Muruchi
Deborah Poole
Seemin Qayum
Arturo Taracena Arriola
Sinclair Thomson
Esteban Ticona Alejo