Race, ethnicity, and power in Ecuador : the manipulation of mestizaje / Karem Roitman.

By:

Roitman, Karem, 1980-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : FirstForumPress, 2009Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 319 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781626371569
1626371563

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race, ethnicity, and power in EcuadorDDC classification:

305.5/208905980866 22

LOC classification:

HN320.Z9 E49 2009eb

Other classification:

LB 56655
MI 86968

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Contents:

Foxes and lions : studying the upper classes -- Constructing identities : the 2001 national census -- Economy, etiquette, and ethnicity : defining Ecuadorian elites -- The Mestizo and the "other" : ethnic narratives in Ecuador -- The port and mestizaje : ethnic narratives in Guayaquil -- Learning mestizaje : ethnic narratives in Quito -- Ethnic narratives and socioeconomic development -- Responsibility and change.

Summary: "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'. This book also reveals how Ecuador's urban upper classes represent their mestizo identity in ways that both hide discriminatory practices and impede social and economic mobility for the 'other'."--Publisher description

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-314) and index.

"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'. This book also reveals how Ecuador's urban upper classes represent their mestizo identity in ways that both hide discriminatory practices and impede social and economic mobility for the 'other'."--Publisher description

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