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RACE, CLASS, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE

RACE, CLASS, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE. LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America. CLASS STRUCTURE. Upper Class: Urban (industrialists, bankers) Rural (landowners) Middle Class: Urban (merchants, lawyers, etc.) Rural (small farmers) Popular/Lower Class: Urban (workers)

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RACE, CLASS, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE

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  1. RACE, CLASS, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America

  2. CLASS STRUCTURE • Upper Class: • Urban (industrialists, bankers) • Rural (landowners) • Middle Class: • Urban (merchants, lawyers, etc.) • Rural (small farmers) • Popular/Lower Class: • Urban (workers) • Rural (peasants, campesinos) • National Institutions: • State (including military) • Church • External Sector: • Economic (investors, merchants) • Political (foreign governments)

  3. CENTRAL THEMES Structures of social domination and control Exclusion, oppression, cooptation (and liberation?) Focus: class, race, and gender Reference: Chronicles of a Death Foretold

  4. SHADINGS BY RACE • Race as a social construct • Indigenous peoples: exploitation and discrimination • African-origin peoples and slavery • Myths of miscegenation: • Mestizajeand the “cosmic race” (razacósmica) • Mulattos and Brazilian “escape hatch”

  5. THE CONTEXT OF BOLIVIA War of the Pacific (1879-83) 80 % indigenous Mining (silver, tin) and agriculture Chaco War (1932-35) = incorporation Revolution of 1952 = mobilization Populist military rule (1970s-80s) Coca leaf and campesinos 60 % indigenous Evo Morales (2005-)

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