Indian Citizenship and the Discourse of Hygiene/Disease in Nineteenth‐Century Peru

Abstract

Citizenship had become conflated with ‘race’ in late nineteenth century Latin America partly on account of the new language of biological science. This article focuses on the contest between rights of belonging and rights of citizenship as played out in a provincial town in Andean Peru during the late nineteenth century. In particular, it explores how by drawing on a discourse of hygiene/disease a provincial elite was able to restrict access to public space in the town and thus deny ‘Indians’ the possibility of participating as citizens in urban political life.

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