Blackness and Race Mixture by Peter Wade

Blackness and Race Mixture by Peter Wade

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Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of "blacknessand 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.

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Blackness and Race Mixture by Peter Wade

Peter Wade focuses on the 'racial democracy' of Colombia-- specifically the black population of the Choco province--to explore the significance of culture and class in a racially mixed population.
"Wade's insistence on analytic issues throughout makes it impossible to read this as a book simply about race relations in ColombiaA major contribution to several fields of scholarship."--Virginia R. Dominguez, Duke University

Peter Wade holds a lecturship in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

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ISBN 13 9780801852510
ISBN 10 080185251X
Title Blackness and Race Mixture
Author Peter Wade
Series Johns Hopkins Studies In Atlantic History And Culture
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published 1995-09-26
Number of pages 432
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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