
Region, Race, and Class in the Making of Colombia
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Mainstream historiography depicts Colombian independence as the achievement of European-descendent elites only, downplaying the role and importance of regional subaltern classes. Munera's well-researched account challenges theoretical, political, and cultural interventions and shows that these subaltern groups were pivotal to achieving independence from Spain. It was their organizing and pressing for freedom from colonial domination that ultimately brought about independence in Cartagena and later to the whole country. Yet Munera demonstrates that these differing regional elites meant that a single, coherent unity across New Granada was not possible, a point that would ultimately doom subsequent nation-building efforts.
Offering a truly decolonizing perspective, one that has remained hidden from official accounts of Colombian independence, scholars and researchers in political science, history, sociology, and anthropology will welcome the opportunity to read this work for the first time in translation.
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"In this myth-busting classic on the formation of the Colombian nation, Alfonso Munera brilliantly decenters traditional understandings of the archive by viewing it from the perspective of the country's Caribbean region. Far from being the straightforward realisation of an "imagined community", Munera argues that nation-building in Colombia was a deeply-fractured process in which the interests of the region's elites played a crucial role, alongside the vital but oft-neglected influence of the subaltern classes, the artisans and mulatos of Cartagena. This English translation now makes an influential text accessible to an even wider audience."Peter Wade, University of Manchester
"What a pleasure to see the long-overdue translation of this classic work of Latin American and Atlantic history. Alfonso Munera has been one of the leading voices in promoting the inclusion of Black agency and actors in the region's history. English-speaking audiences now have access to his pathbreaking research and to his lucid and compelling storytelling."
George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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