Format:
Lit. S. 84-93
ISBN:
0822322021
Content:
The author tries to challenge the common view, that Nicaragua is an ethnically homogeneous society - one of the achievements of Nicaraguan elites, which he calls "the myth of Nicaragua mestiza". Nevertheless, in the period of study, from 1880-1925, indigenous communities had not ceased to exist, as the hegemonic view suggests, but struggled with mestizo elites. The ladino victory over the highland indians led to the atomization of some ethnic identities and to the transformation into a class perspective in other cases, but not to the disappearance of the communities nor their resistance and struggle for identity. (DÜI-Huj)
In:
Identity and struggle at the margins of the nation-state, Durham [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 1998, , Seite 52-93, 0822322021
In:
0822322188
In:
pages:52-93
Language:
English
