Shipwrecked Identities : Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast / / Baron L. Pineda.

Global identity politics rest heavily on notions of ethnicity and authenticity, especially in contexts where indigenous identity becomes a basis for claims of social and economic justice. In contemporary Latin America there is a resurgence of indigenous claims for cultural and political autonomy and...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, N.J. : : Rutgers University Press,, 2006.
©2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • The setting
  • Nicaragua's two coasts
  • From Bilwi to Puerto Cabezas : Mestizo nationalism in the age of agro-industry
  • Company time
  • Neighborhoods and official ethnicity
  • Costeño warriors and contra rebels : nature, culture, and ethnic conflict
  • Conclusion.