Mestizaje and Globalization Transformations of Identity and Power

"The volume provides an impressive array of essays that make important interventions in the study of mestizaje and indigeneity in the Americas while helping us also understand racial struggles elsewhere."-American Indian Quarterly

"Mestizaje and Globalization is illuminating. Readers will especially appreciate the definitions and evolution of terms presented in the editors' introductory essay. Readers will come away with a thorough understanding of mestizaje over time and its meaning in the era of globalization."-AlterNative

"The first 'classic' elaboration of mestizaje interpretative frameworks."-Miguel Gonzalez, co-author of Etnicidad y naciÓn: El desarrollo de la autonomÍa de la Costa AtlÁntica de Nicaragua

"Mestizaje and globalization are worthy and long-lasting areas of inquiry and have huge impacts on understanding the Americas and Latin@s in the United States."-Arturo J. Aldama, co-editor of Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands

Stefanie Wickstrom is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Central Washington University. She has published in journals such as Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Latin American Perspectives, and American Indian Quarterly.

Philip D. Young taught at the University of Oregon from 1966 until 2002. He was an ethnographer, applied anthropologist, cultural ecologist, and a specialist in Indigenous cultures of Latin America until his death in 2013.