{"product_id":"who-defines-indigenous-identities-development-intellectuals-and-the-state-in-northern-mexico-9780813536699","title":"Who Defines Indigenous Identities Development Intellectuals and the State in Northern Mexico","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on her research of the Mixtec Indians' migration from the southwest of Mexico to Baja California, the author shows that sometimes the push for indigenous labels is more a process of external oppression than it is of minority empowerment. This book is useful to scholars working in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and ethnic studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirtually all of the scholarship on identity sees it as something that comes from the bottom-up. Martinez Novo recognizes the popular side of identity formation, but also looks at the process from the top down. How do more powerful actors-state institutions, intellectuals, elites, NGOs, etc.-try, in an imperfect and messy way, to mold collective identities? Martinez Novo not only poses this rather interesting problem, but investigates it with an innovative methodology and supports it with sound scholarship.-Steve Striffler, author of in the Shadows of State and Capital\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Mixtec Communities at the Mexican Border. 3 The Making of Vulnerabilities: Indigenous Day Laborers in Mexico's Neoliberal Agriculture; 4 \"\"We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government.\"\" State Institutions and Indigenous Migrants in Baja California in the 1990s; 5 Representations of Indigenous Women Street Vendors in Tijuana; 6 Race, Maternalism, and Community Development; 7 Conclusion: Cultural Difference and Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768152654167,"sku":"9780813536699","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813536699.jpg?v=1758716583","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/who-defines-indigenous-identities-development-intellectuals-and-the-state-in-northern-mexico-9780813536699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}