Mestizaje and globalization : transformations of identity and power /

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"The Spanish word mestizaje does not easily translate into English. Its meaning and significance have been debated for centuries since colonization by European powers began. Its simplest definition is "mixing." As long as the term has been employed, norms and ideas about racial and cu...

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Other Authors: Wickstrom, Stefanie (Editor), Young, Philip D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Mestizaje > Latin America.
Mestizaje > United States.
Mestizos > Latin America > Ethnic identity.
Mestizos > United States > Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity > Latin America.
Ethnicity > United States.
Globalization > Social aspects > Latin America.
Globalization > Social aspects > United States.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to Key Concepts / Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young
  • Part I. Constructing Mestizaje
  • Mestizaje : The Revolutionary Encounter / Rex Wirth
  • Mestizaje in Colonial Mexican Art / Sofía Irene Velarde Cruz
  • The Tradition of "La Chaya" in Vallenar, Chile : The Search for Imaginaries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Iván Pizarro Díaz
  • Part II. Barriers to Empowerment through Identity
  • Born Indigenous, Growing Up Mestizos : Schooling and Youth in Arequipa, Peru / Mariella I. Arredondo
  • Questioning the Nation : Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas in Brazilian Universities / Paulo Alberto dos Santos Vieira
  • Political Subjectification, Mestizaje, and Globalization : Constructing Citizenship in Aid and Development Programs in the Peruvian Andes / Jorge Legoas P. and Fabrizio Arenas Barchi
  • The Door to the Future : Cultural Change and the Cheyenne Sundance / Jennifer Whiteman
  • Part III. Empowerment
  • From Mestizos to Mashikuna : Global Influences on Discursive, Spatial, and Performed Realizations of Indigeneity in Urban Quito / Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
  • Indigenous Peoples as a New Category of Transnational Social Actors : An Analysis Based on the Case of Argentina / Sabine Kradolfer
  • Divine Design : Crafting and Consuming the Sacred in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé / Angela Castañeda
  • Women's Roles and Responses to Globalization in Ngäbe Communities / Philip D. Young
  • Politicizing Ethnicity : Strategies in Panama and Ecuador / Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar and Mónica Martínez Mauri
  • Beyond Mestizaje : Andean Interculturality / John Stolle-McAllister.

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