Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Racisms of the Present and the Past in Latin America / Laura Gotkowitz 1

Part I. The Uses of "Race" in Colonial Latin America

Unfixing Race / Kathryn Burns 57

Was There Race in Colonial Latin America?: Identifying Selves and Others in the Insurgent Andes / Sinclair Thomson 72

Part II. Racialization and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century

From Assimilation to Segregation: Guatemala, 1800-1944 / Arturo Taracena 95

The Census and the Making of a Social "Order" in Nineteenth-Century Boliva / Rossana Barragán 113

Forging the Unlettered Indian: The Pedagogy of Race in the Bolivian Andes / Brooke Larson 134

Part III. Racialization and Nationalist Mythologies in the Twentieth Century

Indian Ruins, National Origins: Tiwanaku and Indigenismo in La Paz, 1897-1933 / Seemin Qayum 159

Mestazaje, Distinction, and Cultural Presence: The View from Oaxaca / Deborah Poole 179

On the Origin of the "Mexican Race" / Claudio Lomnitz 204

Part IV. Antiracist Movements and Racism Today

Politics of Place and Urban Indigenas in Ecuador's Indigenous Movement / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfield 221

Education and Decolonization in the Work of the Aymara Activist Eduardo Leandro Nina Quispe / Esteban Ticona Alejo 240

Mistados, Cholos, and the Negation of Identity in the Guatemalan Highlands / Charles R. Hale 254

Authenticating Indians and Movements: Interrogating Indigenous Authenticity, Social Movements, and Fieldwork in Contemporary Peru / Maríia Elena García and José Antonio Lucero 278

Transgressions and Racism: The Struggle over a New Constitution in Bolivia / Andrés Calla and Khantuta Muruchi 299

Epilogue to "Transgressions and Racism": Making Sense of May 24th in Sucre: Toward an Antiracist Legislative Agenda / Pamela Calla and the Observatorio del Racismo 311

Part V. Concluding Comments

A Postcolonial Palimpsest: The Work Race Does in Latin America/ Florencia Mallon 321

Bibliography 337

Contributors 377

Index 381