Since the earliest years of European colonialism, Latin America has
been a region of seemingly intractable inequalities, marked by a
stark divide between the haves and the have-nots. This collection
illuminates the diverse processes that have combined to produce and
reproduce inequalities in Latin America, as well as some of the
implications of those processes for North Americans.
Anthropologists, cultural critics, historians, and political
scientists from North and South America offer new and varied
perspectives, building on the sociologist Charles Tilly's
relational framework for understanding enduring inequalities. While
one essay is a broad yet nuanced analysis of Latin American
inequality and its persistence, another is a fine-grained
ethnographic view of everyday life and aspirations among shantytown
residents living on the outskirts of Lima. Other essays address
topics such as the initial bifurcation of Peru's healthcare system
into one for urban workers and another for the rural poor, the
asymmetrical distribution of political information in Brazil, and
an evolving Cuban "aesthetics of inequality," which incorporates
hip-hop and other transnational cultural currents. Exploring the
dilemmas of Latin American inequalities as they are playing out in
the United States, a contributor looks at new immigrant Mexican
farmworkers in upstate New York to show how undocumented workers
become a vulnerable rural underclass. Taken together, the essays
extend social inequality critiques in important new directions.
Contributors
Jeanine Anderson
Javier Auyero
Odette Casamayor
Christina Ewig
Paul Gootenberg
Margaret Gray
Eric Hershberg
Lucio Renno
Luis Reygadas
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