ISBN:
9780813059129
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (411 p)
Series Statement:
New World Diasporas
Series Statement:
New World Diasporas Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Yo Soy Negro : Blackness in Peru
DDC:
305.800985
Keywords:
Blacks--Race identity--Peru--Piura (Department)
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Blacks ; Race identity ; Peru ; Piura (Department)
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Blacks ; Peru ; Piura (Department) ; Social conditions
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Slavery ; Peru ; History
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Piura (Peru : Department) ; Race relations
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English--in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades--to address what it means to be black in Peru. Based on extensive ethnographic work in the country and informed by more than eighty interviews with Peruvians of African descent, this groundbreaking study explains how ideas of race, color, and mestizaje in Peru differ greatly from those held in other Latin American nations. The conclusion that Tanya Maria Golash-Boza draws from her rigorous inquiry is that Peruvians of African descent give meaning to blackness without always referencing
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Black, but Not African; 2. Locating Black Peruvians in Latin America; 3. Race and Color Labels in Peru; 4. Diasporic Discourses and Local Blackness Compared; 5. Black Is Beautiful or White Is Right?; 6. The Politics of Difference in Peru; Epilogue; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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