Peter Wade is a British
anthropologist
An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...
who specializes in issues of
race and
ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they Collective consciousness, collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, ...
in
Latin America
Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geogr ...
. Peter Wade is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...
. He has written numerous books and articles about the social and historical meanings of race, ethnicity and sexuality in the context of Latin America. His "Race and Ethnicity in Latin America" has been described as an "essential text for students studying the region", and it has been published in a second edition.
Bibliography
* 2019. Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by Peter Wade, James Scorer and Ignacio Aguiló. London: University of London Press.
* 2017. Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press.
* 2014. Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America. Edited by Peter Wade, Carlos López Beltrán, Eduardo Restrepo, Ricardo Ventura Santos. Durham: Duke University Press.
* 2010. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. Second, revised and updated edition. London: Pluto Press.
* 2009. Race and Sex in Latin America. London: Pluto Press.
* 2002. Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Approach. London: Pluto Press.
* 2000. Music, Race and Nation: Música Tropical in Colombia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* 1993. Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
References
Peter Wade's Faculty page at Manchester University
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Academics of the University of Manchester
Living people
British anthropologists
1957 births