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 Renique, James Sanders, Alexandra Minna Stern, and Barbara Weinstein.

Contributors:
Nancy P. Appelbaum, State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, N.Y.)
Sueann Caulfield, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Sarah C. Chambers, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Lillian Guerra, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine)
Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)
Anne S. Macpherson, State University of New York at Brockport (Brockport, N.Y.)
Aims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Gerardo Renique, City College, City University of New York (New York, N.Y.)
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, Syracuse University (Syracuse, N.Y.)
James Sanders, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Peter Wade, University of Manchester (Manchester, England)
Barbara Weinstein, University of Maryland at College Park (College Park, Md.)

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	352
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	University of North Carolina Press
Fecha de Publicación	2003-03-17
Dimensiones	9.38" x 6.06" x 0.8" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	América Latina

Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra

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

MacPherson, Anne S.

Anne S. Macpherson is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Brockport.

Appelbaum, Nancy P.

Nancy P. Appelbaum is professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton.