Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia

by Peter Wade

Book Overview

Peter Wade focuses on the "racial democracy" of Columbia--specifically the black population of the Choc? province--to explore the significance of culture and class in a racially mixed population. Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, he shows how the concepts 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080185251X
• ISBN13: 9780801852510
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"