Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Racisms of the Present and the Past in Latin America 1
5. Part I. The Uses of ‘‘Race’’ in Colonial Latin America
6. Unfixing Race 57
7. Was There Race in Colonial Latin America? Identifying Selves and Others in the Insurgent Andes 72
8. Part II. Racialization and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century
9. From Assimilation to Segregation: Guatemala, 1800–1944 95
10. The Census and the Making of a Social ‘‘Order’’ in Nineteenth-Century Bolivia 113
11. Forging the Unlettered Indian: The Pedagogy of Race in the Bolivian Andes 134
12. Part III. Racialization and Nationalist Mythologies in the Twentieth Century
13. Indian Ruins, National Origins: Tiwanaku and Indigenismo in La Paz, 1897–1933 159
14. Mestizaje, Distinction, and Cultural Presence: The View from Oaxaca 179
15. On the Origin of the ‘‘Mexican Race’’ 204
16. Part IV. Antiracist Movements and Racism Today
17. Politics of Place and Urban Indígenas in Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement 221
18. Education and Decolonization in the Work of the Aymara Activist Eduardo Leandro Nina Qhispi 240
19. Mistados, Cholos, and the Negation of Identity in the Guatemalan Highlands 254
20. Authenticating Indians and Movements: Interrogating Indigenous Authenticity, Social Movements, and Fieldwork in Contemporary Peru 278
21. Transgressions and Racism: The Struggle over a New Constitution in Bolivia 299
22. Epilogue to ‘‘Transgressions and Racism’’: Making Sense of May 24th in Sucre: Toward an Antiracist Legislative Agenda 311
23. Part V. Concluding Comments
24. A Postcolonial Palimpsest: The Work Race Does in Latin America 321
25. Bibliography 337
26. Contributors 377
27. Index 381