Tag: Peru

  • Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, “Indians and Mestizos in the “Lettered City”” highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the “lettered city” as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites.

  • Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. About Black Experience in Latin America Black in Latin America Public Broadcasting Service April 2011 Gates discusses his new project in this interview from the PBS site. First, could you talk a little bit about this project? I conceived of this as a trilogy of documentary series that…

  • Public Ceremonies and Mulatto Identity in Viceregal Lima: A Colonial Reenactment of the Fall of Troy (1631) Colonial Latin American Review Volume 16, Issue 2 (2007) pages 179-201 DOI: 10.1080/10609160701644490 José R. Jouve-Martín, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada Colonial Spanish America was a highly ritualized society. From single events to…

  • The Japanese in multiracial Peru, 1899-1942 University of California, San Diego November 2009 335 pages Publication Number: AAT 3355652 Stephanie Carol Moore This study analyzes the integration of the Japanese into the politics of race and nation in Peru during the period from 1899 to 1942. The first generation of Japanese immigrants arrived in Peru…

  • Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 Duke University Press 2000 424 pages 21 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2385-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2420-1 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected…

  • Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte Published online 2010-08-03 DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201001471 Raúl Necochea López McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Demographic Knowledge and Nation-Building: The Peruvian Census of 1940. The demographers who organized the 1940 census of Peru portrayed the increasingly mixed-race Peruvian population as indicative of the breaking down…

  • Indians and Mestizos: Identity and Urban Popular Culture in Andean Peru Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 26, Issue 2 (June 2000) pages 239 – 253 DOI: 10.1080/03057070050010093 Fiona Wilson The article begins with a discussion of the chronology of conquest and liberation in Peru and reflects on the changing meanings given to the racial…

  • Multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru Race & Class (2008) Vol. 49, No. 4 pages 1-21 DOI: 10.1177/0306396808089284 Felipe Arocena (farocena@fcs.edu.uy), Professor of Sociology Universidad de la República-Uruguay The different strategies of resistance deployed by discriminated ethnic groups in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia are analysed here. In Brazil, Afro movements and indigenous populations are increasingly…

  • Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial…