Race and Nation in Modern Latin America [Paperback]

Nancy P. Appelbaum (Author), Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt (Editor), Peter Wade (Afterword)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0807854417 | ISBN-13: 978-0807854419 | Publication Date: January 17, 2007

This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies of racial democracy have actually served to obscure discrimination, the book shows how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time across Latin America's political landscapes.

Framing the themes and questions explored in the volume, the editors' introduction also provides an overview of the current state of the interdisciplinary literature on race and nation-state formation. Essays on the postindependence period in Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Peru consider how popular and elite racial constructs have developed in relation to one another and to processes of nation building. Contributors also examine how ideas regarding racial and national identities have been gendered and ask how racialized constructions of nationhood have shaped and limited the citizenship rights of subordinated groups.

The contributors are Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, Lillian Guerra, Anne S. Macpherson, Aims McGuinness, Gerardo R„nique, James Sanders, Alexandra Minna Stern, and Barbara Weinstein.

Editorial Reviews

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"Well-written."
-- The Latin Americanist

"[An] ambitious compilation of scholarly articles. . . . A noteworthy contribution to Latin American historiography. . . . A commendable effort."
-- Caribbean Studies Newsletter

"The collection is well conceived, and the essays themselves represent some of the best work on the topic in an impressive range of Latin American and Caribbean contexts."
-- Ada Ferrer, author of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

About the Author

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (January 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807854417
• ISBN-13: 978-0807854419
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Since Amazon enables you to see inside this text, I do not want to invest much time to describe the sections in this book. Suffice is to say that Applebaum and collaborators have successfully achieved the goal of presenting a theoretically solid argument matched with superb historical research. I use it in my Race and Ethnicity in Latin America class, an upper division and Honor undegraduate class. In my view, Race and Nation has been a success in my course because of the carefully chosen and edited contributions---high scholarly work in an accessible English. It has captured students' interest. They are reading it!!!! I strongly recomment the adoption of this book.