Title: Yo soy negro : Blackness in Peru /
Authors: Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Black people Race identity Peru Piura (Department); Black people Peru Piura (Department) Social conditions.; Slavery Peru History.; Black people Peru Piura (Dept.) Social conditions.; Black people Race identity Peru Piura (Dept.); Piura (Peru : Region) Race relations.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.