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

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

Appelbaum, Nancy P.

Hardcover

Series: Latin America Otherwise

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndigenous StudiesSouth American History

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ISBN10: 0822330806
ISBN13: 9780822330806
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 7 2003
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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.

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