Race, ethnicity, and power in Ecuador : the manipulation of mestizaje

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

"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...

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Main Author: Roitman, Karem, 1980-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : FirstForumPress, 2009.
Subjects:
Mestizaje > Ecuador.
Elite (Social sciences) > Ecuador.
Upper class > Ecuador.
Race discrimination > Ecuador.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Elite (Social sciences)
Mestizaje
Race discrimination
Race relations
Upper class
Ethnizität
Mestizisierung
Ecuador > Race relations.
Ecuador
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Table of 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.

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