§16§§This book explores how ideas about race travelled across national borders in early twentieth-century Latin America. It builds on a vast array of scholarly works which underscore the highly contingent and flexible nature of race and racism in the region. The framework of the nation-state dominates much of this scholarship, in part because of the important implications of ideas about race for state policies. This book argues that we need to investigate the cross-border elaboration of ideas that informed and fed into these policies. It is organized around three key policy areas - labour, cultural heritage, and education - and focuses on conversations between Chilean and Peruvian intellectuals about the 'indigenous question'. Most historical scholarship on Chile and Peru draws attention to the wars fought in the nineteenth century and their long-term consequences, which reverberate to this day. Relations between the two countries are therefore interpreted almost exclusively as ant §16§agonistic and hostile. Itinerant Ideas challenges this dominant historical narrative. §§§ §04§Introduction.- Part I: Labour and Race: Seeing Race in Discourses of Class.-1. Socialism, Communism, APRA and the Popular Front: Between Rofermist and Revolutionary Language(s) of Indigeneity.- 2.- The Land Question.- 3. Labour Legislation: Inclusions and Exclusions.- 4. The Racial Politics of Dirt and Food: Producing Clean, Healthy Workers.- Part II: Cultural Heritage and Race: Contesting Geographies of Civilization.- 1. Weaving the Indigenous Past into the Present: Chile versus Peru or Chile and Peru?.- 2. Machu Picchu and Cuzco: Marketing Inca Peru for International Consumption.- 3. Museum Actors, Folkloric Performances, and Popular Art.- Part III. Education and Race: Interlocking Ideals of Salvation.- 1. Expanding the Estado Docente: Modernisation, Nationalism and U.S. Connections.- 2. Discissuion Forums and Collaborative Projects: Peruvians in Chilean Magazines and Chileans in Peruvian Magazines.- 3. Indigenous Voice: Politics, Language, and Knowledge Production.- 4. Conferen §04§cingIndigenous Education.- Conclusion. §13§§"The breadth and depth of this book s investigation are impressive. ... readers interested in indigenismo in Chile, Peru, and really all of Latin America will learn much from this book. Crow s thorough research and literature reviews will be used as a handy reference for scholars interested in these themes." (Mark rice, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 105 (1), February, 2025) §
