During the last fifteen years Latin American governments reformed their constitutions to recognize indigenous rights. The contributors to this book argue that t
Focusing on the representations of multicultural themes involving Euro- and Afro-Brazilians, other immigrants, and indigenous peoples, in the rich tradition of
Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of Latin America. In Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter
Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population. Colombian indigenous communities' success in gaining collective contro
Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes tow