Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948
by
Nancy P. Appelbaum, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2003
Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who are often described as respectable pioneer families who domesticated a wild frontier and planted coffee on the forested slopes of the Andes. Some local inhabitants, however, tell a different tale—of white migrants...