Blackness and Race Mixture

Wade's insistence on analytic issues throughout makes it impossible to read this as a book simply about race relations in Colombia. A major contribution to several fields of scholarship. -- Virginia R. Dominguez, Duke University

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.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.