Insurgent Literacy on the Aymara Altiplano: Following the Paper Trails

Talk by Prof. Brooke Larson (Stony Brook University), a leading history scholar focusing on racial formations in postcolonial Latin American history, particularly in Bolivia.

Prof. Larson has just published the book The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Bolivia by Duke University Press. Read the Introduction of her book here

This visit is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Anthropology Department, the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, the Center for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, and the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.

 

[Photo credit: Peasants vote to organize a local school, 1934. Courtesy of Carlos Salazar Mostajo, Gesta y fotografía: Historia de Warisata en imágenes, photo no. 96]