Now We are Citizens

Upon winning the 2005 presidential election, Evo Morales became the first indigenous person to lead Bolivia since the arrival of the Spanish. This ethnography of the Guarani Indians of Santa Cruz traces how political reforms, most notably the Law of Popular Participation, recast the racist exclusions, and offers a fresh look at neoliberalism.

"In her book, Nancy Grey Postero provides a thoroughand thoroughly compellingguide to understanding the historical and cultural forces that have shaped Bolivian society and its peoples over the past several decades, leading to the election of Morales and the transformation of the Bolivian state...Postero's book is an accessible, lovingly crafted account that will be of interest to scholars of the Andes as well as to undergraduates and their professors, in a range of disciplines within Latin American studies."

Autorentext

Nancy Grey Postero is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is coeditor of The Struggle for Indian Rights in Latin America (2004).

Zusammenfassung
The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of the dominant neoliberal economic model.