Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

by Peter A. Szok

Book Overview

How did a country whose past is intertwined with African slavery ignore its cultural legacies through much of history? And how did Blackness recently break through this amnesia so that nearly a third of Panamanians now self-identify as Afro-descendants? Wolf Tracks explores these and other related questions through the lens of Panamanian street culture.

Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, pioneered by self-taught, commercial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628461721
• ISBN13: 9781628461725
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"