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"Muddied Waters" is an outstanding contribution to the history of race and colonization in modern Colombia. It invites revision of current interpretations of Colombian and Latin American regionalism."--Marco Palacios, coauthor of "Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society"
Sommario
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Riosucio: Race, Colonization, Region, and Community 1
Part I. Country of Regions, 1946–1886
1. Beauty and the Beast: Antioquia and Cauca 31
2. “Accompanied by Progress”: Cauca Intermediaries and Antioqueno Migration 52
3. “By Consent of the Indigenas”: Riosucio’s Indigenous Communities 80
Part 2. The White Republic, 1886–1930
4. Regenerating Riosucio: Regeneration and the Transition to Conservative Rule 107
5. Regenerating Conflict: Riosucio’s Indigenas in the White Republic 124
6. Riosucio on the Margins of the “Model Department” 142
Part 3. Remembering Race, Region, and Community
7. Remembering Riosucio: Imagining a Mestizo Community 167
8. Remembering San Lorenzo: Imagining an Indigenous Community 184
Conclusion: Reimagining Region and Nation 206
Notes 221
Bibliography 267
Index 287
Info autore
Nancy P. Appelbaum is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Riassunto
Colombia's western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants. This book examines 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.
