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I therefore look at public responses of some urban, working class mestizo and indigenous residents of Cotocollao to poverty, powerlessness, and ideological themes such as mestizaje (social race mixture), and marginality by concentrating on the following domains: (1) the political-economic system that forms the framework for Ecuadorian ethnic and class relations and the phenomena of urbanization and uneven development; (2) the history of sector Cotocollao, which has experienced a gradual transition from being a rural center for the control and appropriation of indigenous agricultural labor to being a marginal, ethnically diverse urban area of Quito; (3) the public responses of two segments of the population of Cotocollao: the indigenous Runa who are for the most part inactive in barrio politics but who express protest and political awareness through masked dance performances; and the mestizos, who effect political change through community organization and minimal clientelism; and (4) the individual responses of three lower-class women of Cotocollao to poverty and misfortune. 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