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Does Whitening Happen? Distinguishing between Race and Color Labels in an African-Descended Community in Peru
dc.contributor.author | Golash-Boza, Tanya | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-02T15:51:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-06-02T15:51:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 2010. “Does Whitening Happen? Distinguishing between Race and Color Labels in an African-Descended Community in Peru” Social Problems 57: 1: 138-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.138 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7588 | |
dc.description | Published as "Does Whitening Happen? Distinguishing between Race and Color Labels in an African-Descended Community in Peru." Tanya Golash-Boza. Social Problems. Vol. 57, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 138-156 . © 2010 by Society for the Study of Social Problems. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by Society for the Study of Social Problems for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® on [Caliber (http://caliber.ucpress.net/)] or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center, http://www.copyright.com. | |
dc.description.abstract | This article explores how race and color labels are used to describe people in an Afro-Peruvian community. This article is based on analyses of 88 interviews and 18 months of fieldwork in an African-descended community in Peru. The analyses of these data reveal that, if we consider race and color to be conceptually distinct, there is no “mulatto escape hatch,” no social or cultural whitening, and no continuum of racial categories in the black Peruvian community under study. This article considers the implications of drawing a conceptual distinction between race and color for research on racial classifications in Latin America. Keywords: blackness, race, skin color, Latin America, whitening. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | University of California Press | |
dc.title | Does Whitening Happen? Distinguishing between Race and Color Labels in an African-Descended Community in Peru | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Golash-Boza, Tanya | |
kusw.kudepartment | Department of Sociology | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.138 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |