Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid an

This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the c

Race and Nation is the first book to rigorously compare the various racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. The contributors have honed

While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed re

This book offers the first interpretive synthesis of the history of Andean peasants and the challenges of nation-making in the four republics of Colombia, Ecuad