香港六合彩中特网

Nancy Appelbaum studies racial inequalities embedded in regional and national identities and stereotypes.聽 Her first book 聽聽(2003, Spanish 2008) examined agrarian and regional history from the perspective of a diverse community in Colombia鈥檚 Coffee Region over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.聽 A subsequent book,聽聽(2016; Spanish 2017), follows a group of mid-nineteenth-century geographers as they traverse and depicted the mountains, valleys, plains, and forests of the country that became Colombia. 聽The book examines how they explained the racial and territorial composition of the young nation, how they reconstructed its past, and how they envisioned its future. 聽With Anne Macpherson and Karin Rosemblatt she co-edited聽聽a volume of essays by historians. 聽She has also published articles and book chapters on these and related topics. Additional areas of interest include gender, immigration, and transnational links between Latin America and the United States.

Project Description

Nancy Appelbaum will devote her time at the Institute of Advanced Studies to a short book on a big topic:聽A Brief History of Race in Latin America. Drawing on an abundant and rich interdisciplinary literature by a range of scholars based in the Americas and Europe, the book will address questions that she has been researching, pondering, and teaching about during the last three decades.聽 Latin Americans have expressed pride in having racially 鈥渃ordial,鈥� 鈥渢olerant,鈥� and 鈥渄emocratic鈥� societies. Racism is often said to be less pronounced in Latin America, or not even a serious problem. Latin American racial identities are arguably more fluid and subtly differentiated than, say, those of the United States or the United Kingdom. Yet, historically, Latin Americans of color have repeatedly pointed out that their societies are not free from institutional and overt racism. In emphasizing these tensions, the book will promote informed discussion of race and racism, which affect our own lives today throughout the world.聽聽