From peasant struggles to Indian resistance

By Amalia Pallares

Subjects: Self-determination, National, Self-determination, national, Ecuador, politics and government, Indians of South America, Ethnic identity, Indian activists, Politics and government, Race relations, Government relations, Indians of south america

Description: "Drawing on extensive research in her native Ecuador, Amalia Pallares examines the South American Indian movement in the Ecuadorian Andes and explains its shift from class politics to racial politics in the late twentieth century. Pallares uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the reasons why indigenous Ecuadorians have bypassed their shared class status with other peasant groups and movements in favor of a political identity based on their unique ethnicity as Indians."--BOOK JACKET.