Yo Soy Negro : Blackness in Peru /

This text addresses what it means to be black in Peru. Based on extensive ethnographic work in the country and informed by more than 80 interviews with Peruvians of African descent, the study explains how ideas of race, colour, and mestizaje in Peru differ greatly from those held in other Latin Amer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slavery.
Race relations.
Black people > Social conditions.
Black people > Race identity.
Slavery > Peru > History.
Black people > Peru > Piura (Piura) > Social conditions.
Black people > Race identity > Peru > Piura (Piura)
Piura (Perou : Departement) > Relations raciales.
Peru > Piura (Piura)
Peru.
Piura (Piura, Peru) > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Black, but not African
  • Locating Black Peruvians in Latin America
  • Race and color labels in Peru
  • Diasporic discourses and local Blackness compared
  • Black is beautiful or White is right?
  • The politics of difference in Peru.

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