Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Ecuador : : The Manipulation of Mestiza / / Karem Roitman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Roitman, Karem,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 p.)

How do today's Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador—a country struggling to recast its mestizo identity in the aftermath of dramatic indigenous uprisings—Karem Roitman reveals how the urban upper classes represent their ethnicity in ways that both hide discriminatory practices and impede social and economic mobility for the "other."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Glossary of Key Concepts and Ethnic/Racial Terminology -- Note on Capitalization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Foxes and Lions: Studying the Upper Classes -- 3 Constructing Identities: The 2001 National Census -- 4 Economy, Etiquette, and Ethnicity: Defining Ecuadorian Elites -- 5 The Mestizo and the ‘Other’: Ethnic Narratives in Ecuador -- 6 The Port and Mestizaje: Ethnic Narratives in Guayaquil -- 7 Learning Mestizaje: Ethnic Narratives in Quito -- 8 Ethnic Narratives and Socioeconomic Development -- 9 Responsibility and Change -- 10 Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Brief Chronology of Ecuadorian History -- Appendix 2 Methodological Overview -- Appendix 3 Statistical Data -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book