Claims that Colombia's present-day regional and local hierarchies were shaped by 19th and 20th century processes of colonization and that regionalism and race are tied into Colombia's history of violence.
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
Nancy P. Appelbaum is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
"This is microhistory at its best. The story of Riosucio illuminates the multiple and complex ways in which discourses of race, region, and nation inform each other. Muddied Waters not only gives us a new way of thinking about postcolonial Colombia, but also offers rich comparative insights into other Latin American societies where race and place have become historically intertwined." Barbara Weinstein, author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sao Paulo, 1920-1964 "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." Marcos Palacios, author of Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society
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