Yo Soy Negro [electronic resource] : Blackness in Peru /
Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2011.
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 American nations.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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 American nations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Slavery
Blacks
Blacks