Indigenous Struggle in Latin America: The Perilous Invisibility of Capital and Class

The point of this introductory aside is to highlight the necessity of considering indigenous struggles in contemporary Latin American within a greater system of domestic capitalist social relations, class struggle, and an imperialist world order. Any meaningful emancipation of indigenous peoples on...

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Published in:Latin American politics and society 2007-10, Vol.49 (3), p.191-205
Main Author: Webber, Jeffery R.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The point of this introductory aside is to highlight the necessity of considering indigenous struggles in contemporary Latin American within a greater system of domestic capitalist social relations, class struggle, and an imperialist world order. Any meaningful emancipation of indigenous peoples on the continent will bear fruit only through a combination of popular class and antiracist struggles that tackles at one and the same time the devastations of neoliberal capitalist expansion and the historical legacies of colonial and postcolonial racism. In a provocative introductory essay to a new, abridged edition of Oliver Cromwell Cox's 1948 classic Caste, Class, and Race, Adolph Reed, Jr. asks us to "recognize that race is the product of social relations within history and political economy" (2001).
ISSN:1531-426X
1548-2456
DOI:10.1111/j.1548-2456.2007.tb00387.x