Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru

by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813044499
• ISBN13: 9780813044491
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"