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Title: Now Peru Is Mine
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist
Author: Manuel Llamojha Mitma, Jaymie Patricia Heilman
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0822362384
EAN: 9780822362388
ISBN: 9780822362388
Publisher: Duke University Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, History
Release Date: 02/12/2016
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 363g
Book Series: Narrating Native Histories
Release Year: 2016
Description: Born in 1921, Manuel Llamojha Mitma became one of Peru's most creative and inspiring indigenous political activists. Now Peru Is Mine combines extensive oral history interviews with archival research to chronicle his struggles for indigenous land rights and political inclusion as well as his fight against anti-Indian racism. His compelling story—framed by Jaymie Patricia Heilman's historical contextualization—covers nearly eight decades, from the poverty of his youth and teaching himself to read, to becoming an internationally known activist. Llamojha also recounts his life's tragedies, such as being forced to flee his home and the disappearance of his son during the war between the Shining Path and the government. His life gives insight into many key developments in Peru's tumultuous twentieth-century history, among them urbanization, poverty, racism, agrarian reform, political organizing, the demise of the hacienda system, and the Shining Path. The centrality of his embrace of his campesino identity forces a rethinking of how indigenous identity works inside Peru, while the implications of his activism broaden our understanding of political mobilization in Cold War Latin America.

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