Peter Wade

Mónica G. Moreno Figeroa

Narrativas poderosasdescrevem as nações latino-americanas comofundamentalmente mestiças. Essas narrativasdificultaram o reconhecimento do racismona região, mas as recentes viradasmulticulturalistas aumentaram oreconhecimento das culturas e das identidades negras eindígenas. O multiculturalismo podefocar em questões de identidade evisibilidade e abordar formas despreocupadas de racismo,mas também pode desviar a atenção doracismo estrutural e da desigualdaderacializada e, assim, restringir iniciativas antirracistasmais amplas. Além disso, múltiplos entendimentos decomo o racismo e o antirracismo seinserem em projetos de transformação socialtornam o racismo uma questão complexa emultifacetada. Os sete ensaios de Contra oracismo investigam atores no Brasil, Colômbia,Equador e México que vão além da política dereconhecimento para abordar desigualdadesestruturais e construir um terreno comum comoutros grupos marginalizados. Asorganizações deste estudo defendem uma abordagem detransformação estrutural social quepromova alianças, seja inclusiva e inspiradapor uma imaginação radical.

Mobilização para a mudança social na América Latina

Contra o Racismo

The idea of "racial democracy" in Latin American populations has traditionally assumed that class is a more significant factor than race. But despite the emergence of a mestizo class - people who are culturally and racially mixed in the broadest sense - there remains a complex discrimination against blacks. To explain this phenomenon, Peter Wade focuses on the black population of the Choco province in Colombia - an area where the typical Latin American ambiguity surrounding racial identity is countered by the more definitive "black" identity of the local inhabitants. Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, 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. By uncovering what "blackness" means to the Chocoanos and how "blackness" is reproduced and transformed in different contexts, Wade brings to the study of race a perspective sophisticated enough to account for the real complexities of "blackness", "mixedness", and "whiteness"; the conflicts among race, ethnicity, and national ideologies; the development and transformation of cultural identities; the persistence of racial inequality and racism; and the constitution of society through topography and regionality.

The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia

Blackness and Race Mixture

'An excellent source on past and present debates, and a coherent and insightful set of proposals concerning methodology'.International Affairs'More than merely providing a student's textbook. [Wade] covers the main themes and offers a comprehensive overview of the relevant debates ... an excellent textbook.'European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies'Wade's latest book is intelligent and easy-to-read, and represents a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of race and ethnicity in Latin America.'Patterns of Prejudice

Race And Ethnicity In Latin America

Raza y etnicidad en Latinoamérica

For over ten years, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America has been an essential text for students studying the region. This second edition adds new material and brings the analysis up to date. Race and ethnic identities are increasingly salient in Latin America. Peter Wade examines changing perspectives on Black and Indian populations in the region, tracing similarities and differences in the way these peoples have been seen by academics and national elites. Race and ethnicity as analytical concepts are re-examined in order to assess their usefulness. This book should be the first port of call for anthropologists and sociologists studying identity in Latin America.

Second Edition

Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

dinámicas de las identidades raciales en Colombia

Gente negra, nación mestiza

Carlos López Beltrán

Eduardo Restrepo

Ricardo Ventura Santos

Genómica mestiza nos presenta una serie de investigaciones donde se estudia la raza y lo mestizo. Considerando las investigaciones en los laboratorios de México, Brasil y Colombia, se busca conocer al ámbito genético, político y social que constituyen la raza. Los autores destacan que el estudio de ésta no se agota en una investigación sobre la dimensión genómica, sino que para comprenderla de un mejor modo, hay que considerar una serie de aspectos sociales, culturales y políticos que giran en torno a ella. Es por ello que la obra, nos invita a conocer cómo los conceptos de nación y mestizaje, se entreteje para definir la raza en América Latina.

Raza, nación y ciencia en Latinoamérica

Genómica mestiza

música tropical en Colombia

Música, raza y nación

Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music—which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country—manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of música tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of cumbia and porro in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old traditions and new liberties, especially for women, speaking to a deeply rooted image of black music as sensuous. Recently, nostalgic, "whitened" versions of música tropical have gained popularity as part of government-sponsored multiculturalism. Wade's fresh look at the way music transforms and is transformed by ideologies of race, nation, sexuality, tradition, and modernity is the first book-length study of Colombian popular music.

Musica Tropical in Colombia

Music, Race, and Nation

The intersection of race and sex in Latin America is a subject touched upon by many disciplines but this is the only book that deals soley with these issues. Interracial sexual relations are often a key mythic basis for Latin American national identities, but these concepts are underexplored in English language works. Peter Wade provides a pioneering overview of the growing literature on race and sex in the region, covering historical aspects and contemporary debates. He includes both black and indigenous people in the frame, as well as mixed and white people, avoiding the implication that “race” means “black-white” relations. Challenging but accessible, this book will appeal across the social sciences, particularly to students of anthropology, gender studies and Latin American studies.

Race and Sex in Latin America

Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of Latin America. In Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers have emphasized mixture's democratizing potential, depicting it as a useful resource for addressing problems of racism (claiming that race mixture undoes racial difference and hierarchy), while Latin American scientists participate in this narrative with claims that genetic studies of mestizos can help isolate genetic contributors to diabetes and obesity and improve health for all. Wade argues that, in the process, genomics produces biologized versions of racialized difference within the nation and the region, but a comparative approach nuances the simple idea that highly racialized societies give rise to highly racialized genomics. Wade examines the tensions between mixture and purity, and between equality and hierarchy in liberal political orders, exploring how ideas and scientific data about genetic mixture are produced and circulate through complex networks.

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