Peter Wade 
Race and Sex in Latin America [PDF ebook] 

Interracial sexual relations are often a key mythic basis for Latin American national identities, but the importance of this has been under explored.



Peter Wade provides a pioneering overview of the growing literature on race and sex in the region, covering historical aspects and contemporary debates.



He includes both black and indigenous people in the frame, as well as mixed and white people, avoiding the implication that ‘race’ means ‘black-white’ relations.

Tabella dei contenuti

1. Introduction: defining race and sex

2. Explaining the articulation of race and sex

3. Race and sex in colonial Latin America

4. Making nations through race and sex

5. The political economy of race and sex in contemporary Latin America

6. Race, sex and the politics of identity and citizenship

7. Conclusion

References

Index

Circa l’autore

Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (Pluto, 2010), Race and Sex in Latin America (Pluto, 2009) and Race, Nature and Culture (Pluto, 2002).