Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991

by Marisol de la Cadena

In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education or manners. In Indigenous Mestizos Marisol de la Cadena traces the history of the notion of race from this turn-of-the-century definition to a hegemony...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822324202
• ISBN13: 9780822324201
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"