Cases of Exclusion and Mobilization of Race and Ethnicities in Latin America

Issues of race and ethnicity in Latin America continue to gain a growing amount of academic attention. While themes of ethnic identities, indigeneity, and race relations are commonly examined in our respective disciplines, it is less common to bring together essays with scholars from such a broad variety of disciplines. The papers collected in this volume draw on a wide range of studies from across Latin America, including the examination of ethnohistory, the environment, and culture. They convey the large diversity of perspectives, disciplines, and issues that reflect the richness and complexities of the social processes that encompasses the Americas. Taken has a whole, this broad range of studies on ethnohistory, environmental and legal issues, education, and culture advance our understandings of race and ethnicity in Latin America. In the process, these studies incorporate related issues of how historical and political developments in Latin America have, and continue to be, experienced differently based on varying gendered and class perspectives. Rather than simply viewed at victims, these studies examine how those speaking from the margins continue to shape and reshape what we know as Latin America.