Néstor Valdivia in a TV Perú reportage on the history of censuses in Peru
“Mestizaje has been understood as a form of denial of Indigenous ethnicity, and I believe this is mistaken. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, the ‘de-Indigenization’ of the Indigenous population did not imply a denial of their identity, but rather a different way of constructing it.”
Our research associate Néstor Valdivia participated in a recent report on the history of censuses in Peru.
Watch the full report from TV Perú’s program Sucedió en el Perú:
