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Blackness in the Andes

Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism

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  1. Jean Muteba Rahier
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

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"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

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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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