J. Rahier

Blackness in the Andes (eBook, PDF)

Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137272720
• Artikelnr.: 40718734

Autorenporträt

Jean Muteba Rahier is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the African & African Diaspora Studies program at Florida International University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas - 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 and Mamyrah Dougé Prosper 5. A Glimpse at Afro-Ecuadorian Politics, Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes, and State Corporatism 6. Blackness, the Racial-Spatial Order at Work, and Beauty Contest Politics: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento, and the Negra Permitida 7. Stereotypes of Hypersexuality and the Embodiment of Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador 8. Fútbol and the (Tri-)Color of the Ecuadorian Nation: Ideological and Visual (Dis)Continuities of Black Otherness from Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism

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1. The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas - 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 and Mamyrah Dougé Prosper 5. A Glimpse at Afro-Ecuadorian Politics, Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes, and State Corporatism 6. Blackness, the Racial-Spatial Order at Work, and Beauty Contest Politics: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento, and the Negra Permitida 7. Stereotypes of Hypersexuality and the Embodiment of Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador 8. Fútbol and the (Tri-)Color of the Ecuadorian Nation: Ideological and Visual (Dis)Continuities of Black Otherness from Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism