Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia
by Peter Wade
Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture (1993)
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Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of "blackness" and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts--from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage, music, and personal identity.Tags
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Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and the author and editor of many books, including Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America, also published by Duke University Press, and Race: An Introduction.
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- Canonical title
- Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia
- Original publication date
- 1993
- Important places
- Colombia
- Original language
- English
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, History, Sociology
- DDC/MDS
- 305.896 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Africans and people of African descent; Blacks of African origin
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- F2299 .B55 .W3 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America South America Colombia
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