Along the Bolivian Highway: Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class

by Miriam Shakow

Along the Bolivian Highway traces the emergence of a new middle class in Bolivia, a society commonly portrayed as the site of struggle between a superwealthy white minority and a destitute indigenous majority. Miriam Shakow shows how Bolivian middle classes have deeply shaped politics and social life. While national political leaders like Evo Morales have proclaimed a new era of indigenous power and state-led capitalism in place of racial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246144
• ISBN13: 9780812246148
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"