Muddied Waters : Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948 PDF
by Appelbaum Nancy P. Appelbaum
Part of the Latin America Otherwise series
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Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Colombian elite intellectuals, Appelbaum contends, mapped race onto their mountainous topography by defining regions in racial terms. They privileged certain places and inhabitants as white and modern and denigrated others as racially inferior and backward. Inhabitants of Riosucio, however, elaborated local narratives about their mestizo and indigenous identities that contested the white mystique of the Coffee Region. Ongoing violent conflicts over land and politics, Appelbaum finds, continue to shape local debates over history and identity. Drawing on archival and published sources complemented by oral history, Muddied Waters vividly illustrates the relationship of mythmaking and racial inequality to regionalism and frontier colonization in postcolonial Latin America.
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- Pages:318 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:07/04/2003
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:318 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:07/04/2003
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- ISBN:9780822384335