{"product_id":"blackness-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-volume-1-social-dynamics-and-cultural-transformations-central-america-and-northern-and-western-south-a-9780253211934","title":"Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, Volume 1: Social Dynamics and Cultural Transformations: Central America and Northern and Western South A","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe chapters in these volumes excel in describing the diverse cultural responses of black populations to unique local and national contexts. . . . Whitten and Torres have produced a valuable collection destined to become a standard reference work on black cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean. --American Anthropologist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo understand the meanings of blackness in the African diaspora, we must critically examine the paradigms that have emerged over the past five centuries out of Euroamerican racism and black liberation. These seminal volumes add immeasurably to our understanding of those paradigms and of the black experience in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman E. Whitten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.08w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253211934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorman E. Whitten, Jr. is Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies and Affiliate of Afro-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His publications include Black Frontiersmen: Afro-American Culture of Ecuador and Columbia; Sacha Runa: Ethnicity and Adaptation of Ecuadorian Jungle Quichua; Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador; and Sicuanga Runa: The Other Side of Development in Amazonian Ecuador.\u003cbr\u003eArlene Torres is Assistant Professor of Anthropology. She is affiliated with Afro American Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Latina\/Latino Studies Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She serves on the editorial board of the Afro-Latin American Research Association. Torres has conducted extensive field research in Puerto Rico and Barbados.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40507125989491,"sku":"9.78025E+12","price":57.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b365bb9c-9a6b-4e6e-bedd-7133743ef95b.jpg?v=1665493724","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/blackness-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-volume-1-social-dynamics-and-cultural-transformations-central-america-and-northern-and-western-south-a-9780253211934","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}