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Yo soy negro : Blackness in Peru / Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

Author
Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012]
Copyright Date
copyright 2011
Edition
First paperback printing.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 236 pages).
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Language Note
In English with occasional passages in Spanish.
Contents
Introduction -- 1 Black, but Not African -- 2 Locating Black Peruvians in Latin America -- 3 Race and Color Labels in Peru -- 4 Diasporic Discourses and Local Blackness Compared -- 5 Black Is Beautiful or White Is Right? -- 6 The Politics of Difference in Peru -- Epilogue.
Summary
Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English -- in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades -- to address what it means to be black in Peru. Based on extensive ethnographic work in the country and informed by more than eighty interviews with Peruvians of African descent, this groundbreaking study explains how ideas of race, color, and mestizaje in Peru differ greatly from those held in other Latin American nations. The conclusion that Tanya Maria Golash-Boza draws from her rigorous inquiry is that Peruvians of African descent give meaning to blackness without always referencing Africa, slavery, or black cultural forms. This represents a significant counterpoint to diaspora scholarship that points to the importance of slavery in defining blackness in Latin America as well as studies that place cultural and class differences at the center of racial discourses in the region.
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ISBN
9780813035741
9780813044491
Note
Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).
Originally published: 2011.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226), index, and glossary.
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