La Paz's colonial specters : urbanization, migration and indigenous political participation, 1900-52 /

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Author / Creator:	Sierra, Luis M., author.
Imprint:	London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. ©2021
Description:	x, 233 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Indians of South America -- Urban residence -- Bolivia -- La Paz -- History -- 20th century. La Paz (Bolivia) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Working class -- Bolivia -- La Paz -- History -- 20th century. Indians of South America -- Urban residence Political participation Politics and government Race relations Working class La Paz (Bolivia) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. Indians of South America -- Political activity -- Bolivia -- La Paz -- History -- 20th century. La Paz (Bolivia) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Bolivia -- La Paz History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12492058

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ISBN:	9781350099166 1350099163 9781350204225 1350204226 9781350099173 9781350099180
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Luis Sierra treads new ground in his authoritative research on the influence of indigenous migration and the subsequent political activism of La Paz's urban inhabitants upon the transformation of Bolivia in the first half the 20th century. Sierra examines the role of the neighborhoods in the process of urbanization, a shift from the current focus on individuals"--
Other form:	Online version: Sierra, Luis M. La Paz's colonial specters London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781350099173

Table of Contents:

Indígenas, Vecinos, and Residents: Bolivian Urban History in the Twentieth Century
The Extramuro, History, Memory, and Urbanization in La Paz, Bolivia, 1900-1952
The Racial Thinking of Bolivian Government Officials and Intellectuals in the 1920s
Alternative Identities: Labor and Race in La Paz, Bolivia in the 1920s and 1930s
Negotiated Modernity and the Building of the Indigenous Neighborhoods, 1900-1952
"Social Worries, Not Legal Theory": Race, Class, Gender, and Space in the Indigenous Neighborhoods, 1935-1956
Race, Class, and Political Power: Urban La Paz before and after the Chaco War, 1900-1952
Urban Revolution: Indigenous Neighborhoods, the MNR, and Those Three Days in April 1952
The Mobilization of Indigeneity in Bolivia, 1900-1952.

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