Muddied Waters

Nancy P. Appelbaum is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

• List of Illustrations xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: Riosucio: Race, Colonization, Region, and Community 1Part I. Country of Regions, 1946–1886 1. Beauty and the Beast: Antioquia and Cauca 312. “Accompanied by Progress”: Cauca Intermediaries and Antioqueno Migration 523. “By Consent of the Indigenas”: Riosucio’s Indigenous Communities 80Part 2. The White Republic, 1886–1930 4. Regenerating Riosucio: Regeneration and the Transition to Conservative Rule 1075. Regenerating Conflict: Riosucio’s Indigenas in the White Republic 1246. Riosucio on the Margins of the “Model Department” 142Part 3. Remembering Race, Region, and Community 7. Remembering Riosucio: Imagining a Mestizo Community 1678. Remembering San Lorenzo: Imagining an Indigenous Community 184Conclusion: Reimagining Region and Nation 206Notes 221Bibliography 267Index 287

”Muddied Waters is an outstanding contribution to the history of race and colonization in modern Colombia. It invites revision of current interpretations of Colombian and Latin American regionalism.”-Marco Palacios, coauthor of Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society ”The story of Riosucio illuminates the multiple and complex ways in which discourses of race, region, and nation inform each other. Muddied Waters not only gives us a new way of thinking about postcolonial Colombia, but also offers rich comparative insights into other Latin American societies where race and place have become historically intertwined.”-Barbara Weinstein, author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in SÃo Paulo, 1920-1964