Screen LibraryBlackness in the Andes ethnographic vignettes of cultural politics in the time of multiculturalism /
This book examines, in Andean national contexts, the impacts of the 'Latin American multicultural turn' of the past two decades on Afro Andean cultural politics, emphasizing both transformations and continuities.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137272720 |
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This book examines, in Andean national contexts, the impacts of the 'Latin American multicultural turn' of the past two decades on Afro Andean cultural politics, emphasizing both transformations and continuities. "This book is the crowning achievement in Jean Muteba Rahier's impressive oeuvre. It affirms him as a leading theorist and ethnographer of the African diaspora experience." - Kevin A. Yelvington, University of South Florida, USA, editor of Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137272713. |
| Carrier Form: | 256 p. : 2 maps, 1. |
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9781137272720 : 1137272724 : |
| CLC: | C912.4 |
| Contents: | 1. The Afro-Esmeraldian Decimas - Ecuador: Creolization/Malleability in the Time of Interculturalismo and Neo-Essentialism 2. Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jews in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of the Semana Santa, Ecuador 3. From Panacea for Harmonious Race Relations to Ideological Tool for Oppression and National Identity Imagination: Reflections from the Andes on Mestizaje through Time and Space 4. Afrodescendants, the Multicultural Turn and the 'New' Latin American Constitutions and Other Special Legislations: Particularities of the Andean Region by Jean Muteba Rahier |