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Race And Ethnicity In Latin America » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Race And Ethnicity In Latin America by Peter Wade

Authors: Peter Wade
ISBN-13: 9780745309873, ISBN-10: 0745309879
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Peter Wade

Peter Wade completed a doctorate in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University focusing on the Black population in Columbia. He is now a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and has written for Man and Nature and Culture.

Book Synopsis

Examines changing perspectives on Black and Indian populations in the region tracing comparisons in how these peoples have been seen by academics and national elites.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Introduction1
1The Meaning of 'Race' and 'Ethnicity'5
2Blacks and Indians in Latin America25
3Early Approaches to Blacks and Indians, 1920s - 1960s40
4Inequality and Situational Identity - 1970s59
5Blacks and Indians in the Postmodern Nation-State80
6Black and Indian Social Movements95
7Studying Race and Ethnicity in a Postmodern and Reflexive World111
Notes120
Bibliography124
Index146

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