Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Ecuador: The Manipulation of Mestiza

How do today's Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador-a country struggling to recast i...

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1. Verfasser: Roitman, Karem (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boulder Lynne Rienner Publishers [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:How do today's Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador-a country struggling to recast its mestizo identity in the aftermath of dramatic indigenous uprisings-Karem Roitman reveals how the urban upper classes represent their ethnicity in ways that both hide discriminatory practices and impede social and economic mobility for the "other.
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (319 pages)
ISBN:9781626371569
DOI:10.1515/9781626371569

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