Blackness in the Andes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Jean Muteba Rahier

   Pages 1-7

3. The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas—Ecuador: Creolization/Malleability in the Time of Interculturalismo and Neo-Essentialism

   • Jean Muteba Rahier

   Pages 9-35

4. Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jews in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of Semana Santa

   • Jean Muteba Rahier

   Pages 37-64

5. 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

   • Jean Muteba Rahier

   Pages 65-88

6. Afrodescendants, the Multicultural Turn and the “New” Latin American Constitutions and Other Special Legislations: Particularities of the Andean Region

   • Jean Muteba Rahier, Mamyrah Dougé Prosper

   Pages 89-103

7. A Glimpse at Afro-Ecuadorian Politics, Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes, and State Corporatism

   • Jean Muteba Rahier

   Pages 105-120

8. Blackness, the Racial-Spatial Order at Work, and Beauty Contest Politics: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento, and the Negra Permitida

   • Jean Muteba Rahier

   Pages 121-146

9. Stereotypes of Hypersexuality and the Embodiment of Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador

   • Jean Muteba Rahier

   Pages 147-174

10. Fútbol and the (tri-)Color of the Ecuadorian Nation: Ideological and Visual (Dis-) Continuities of Black Otherness from Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism

    • Jean Muteba Rahier

    Pages 175-197

11. Back Matter

    Pages 199-243

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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.

• Cultural turn
• identity
• Nation
• national identity
• participation
• politics
• transformation
• latin american politics

"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

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

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