TY - BOOK ID - 78344159 TI - Race, ethnicity, and power in Ecuador PY - 2009 SN - 1626371563 9781626371569 9781935049074 1935049070 PB - Boulder, Colo. DB - UniCat KW - Mestizaje KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Upper class KW - Race discrimination KW - Bias, Racial KW - Discrimination, Racial KW - Race bias KW - Racial bias KW - Racial discrimination KW - Discrimination KW - Fashionable society KW - High society KW - Society, High KW - Upper classes KW - Social classes KW - Elites (Social sciences) KW - Leadership KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Social groups KW - Mestizo culture KW - Mestizo-ization KW - Miscegenation KW - Ecuador KW - Ėkvador KW - Equador KW - Equateur KW - Republic of Ecuador KW - República del Ecuador KW - Race relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78344159 AB - How do today's Latin American elites understand and relate to ideas of power, race, ethnicity, and mestizaje? And what impact does that understanding have on the dynamics of socioeconomic development in ethnically mixed societies? Focusing on the case of Ecuador—a country struggling to recast its mestizo identity in the aftermath of dramatic indigenous uprisings—Karem Roitman reveals how the urban upper classes represent their ethnicity in ways that both hide discriminatory practices and impede social and economic mobility for the "other." ER -