Race and Nation in Modern Latin America

Foreword The First New Nations vii Thomas C. Holt Acknowledgments xv Introduction Racial Nations 1(31) Nancy P. Appelbaum Anne S. Macpherson Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt Little Middle Ground: The Instability of a Mestizo Identity in the Andes, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 32(24) Sarah C. Chambers Belonging to the Great Granadan Family: Partisan Struggle and the Construction of Indigenous Identity and Politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849--1890 56(31) James Sanders Searching for ``Latin America'': Race and Sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s 87(21) Aims McGuinness Imagining the Colonial Nation: Race, Gender, and Middle-Class Politics in Belize, 1888--1898 108(24) Anne S. Macpherson From Revolution to Involution in the Early Cuban Republic: Conflicts over Race, Class, and Nation, 1902--1906 132(31) Lillian Guerra Interracial Courtship in the Rio de Janeiro Courts, 1918--1940 163(24) Sueann Caulfield From Mestizophilia to Biotypology: Racialization and Science in Mexico, 1920--1960 187(24) Alexandra Minna Stern Race, Region, and Nation: Sonora's Anti-Chinese Racism and Mexico's Postrevolutionary Nationalism, 1920s--1930s 211(26) Gerardo Renique Racializing Regional Difference: Sao Paulo versus Brazil, 1932 237(26) Barbara Weinstein Afterword Race and Nation in Latin America: An Anthropological View 263(20) Peter Wade Select Bibliography 283(24) Contributors 307(4) Index 311