Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948

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Duke University Press, 2003 - 297 頁
Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who are often described as respectable pioneer families who domesticated a wild frontier and planted coffee on the forested slopes of the Andes. Some local inhabitants, however, tell a different tale—of white migrants rapaciously usurping the lands of indigenous and black communities. Muddied Waters examines both of these legends, showing how local communities, settlers, speculators, and politicians struggled over jurisdictional boundaries and the privatization of communal lands in the creation of the Coffee Region. Viewing the emergence of this region from the perspective of Riosucio, a multiracial town within it, Nancy P. Appelbaum reveals the contingent and contested nature of Colombia’s racialized regional identities.

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Colombian elite intellectuals, Appelbaum contends, mapped race onto their mountainous topography by defining regions in racial terms. They privileged certain places and inhabitants as white and modern and denigrated others as racially inferior and backward. Inhabitants of Riosucio, however, elaborated local narratives about their mestizo and indigenous identities that contested the white mystique of the Coffee Region. Ongoing violent conflicts over land and politics, Appelbaum finds, continue to shape local debates over history and identity. Drawing on archival and published sources complemented by oral history, Muddied Waters vividly illustrates the relationship of mythmaking and racial inequality to regionalism and frontier colonization in postcolonial Latin America.

 

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Beauty and the Beast Antioquia and Cauca
31
Accompanied by Progress Cauca Intermediaries and Antioqueno Migration
52
By Consent of the Indigenas Riosucios Indigenous Communities
80
Regenerating Riosucio Regeneration and the Transition to Conservative Rule
107
Regenerating Conflict Riosucios Indigenas in the White Republic
124
Riosucio on the Margins of the Model Department
142
Remembering Riosucio Imagining a Mestizo Community
167
Remembering San Lorenzo Imagining an Indigenous Community
184
Reimagining Region and Nation
206
Notes
221
Bibliography
267
Index
287
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第 20 頁 - It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion....
第 xiii 頁 - The Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, Joint Committee on Latin America and the Caribbean, funded the bulk of this research from 1993 to 1995.

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Nancy P. Appelbaum is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

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