P Wade
Biographic Data
| ID | 33173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Wade |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Wade |
| SIGNATURE | WADE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4070-4187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 120 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 852 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 113 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Modes of Decolonial and Anti‐Racist Intervention in the Art World: Two Cases From Brazil and Argentina
I explore two exhibitions that were curated from a decolonial and anti‐racist position by Indigenous Brazilian and non‐white working‐class Argentine artists: Véxoa: Nós sabemos (Véxoa: We Know) and ¿Qué necesitan aprender los museos? (What Do Museums Need to Learn?). I analyse the different articulations—expressions and connections—of these exhibitions and the affordances they provided for anti‐racism and decoloniality in art practice. I argue th…
Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America
In this collection, artists and researchers collaborate to explore the anti-racist effects of diverse artistic practices, specifically theatre, dance, visual art and music. By integrating the experiences of Black, Indigenous and mestizo ('mixed-race') artists from Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, the text interrogates how art with anti-racist intent works in the world and brings special attention to its affective dimensions. Latin America's parti…
A relational approach to comparisons of race and racism in the Americas and beyond
Studies of race in the Americas have been driven by explicit or implicit nation-based comparisons. This contrastive approach to comparison has enhanced our understanding of differences across national racial systems and supported challenges to racism. However, by treating specific cases as separate bounded units, notable primarily for their differences, this approach has produced blind spots, including the neglect of historical connections, paral…
Curated Conversation 2: Decolonising the Arts in Latin America: Anti-Racist Irruptions in the Art World
A conversation curated from an online event, Decolonising the Arts in Latin America: Anti-Racist Irruptions in the Art World . Artists from different parts of Latin America talk about their work from a decolonial and anti-racist perspective. Participants include Miriam Álvarez, director of the Mapuche theatre company El Katango; Alejandra Ejido, director of the Afro-Argentine company Teatro en Sepia; Ashanti Dinah Orozco, Afro-Colombian poet and …
Temporalities, anachronism and politics in stories of the Conquest of the Americas
Focusing on humorous cartoons about the Conquest published between 1945 and 1970 in an Argentinian popular comic magazine and on a Colombian educational and politically militant comic-book narrative history of the same events, published in 1978, I analyse how the publications used mixed temporalities when relating historical events. I challenge the common idea that disrupting linear timelines by mixing temporalities necessarily has politically pr…
The ambivalence of Blackness in early twentieth-century Argentinian comics: “Página del Dólar”
This article explores a dual dynamic of simultaneous subordination and limited inclusion of Blackness in Latin America, using the example of a 1920s’ Argentinian comic strip, “Página del Dólar”. The comic's representations of Black people are racist, but also ambivalent and complex. Going beyond common characterisations of the exclusion/inclusion dynamic as a mask of inclusion hiding the reality of exclusion, I argue that the simultaneity and int…
The Study of Human Genomic Diversity in Latin America: Nation and Population
Genomic science values the genetic diversity revealed by advances in genetic sequencing that allow the detailed mapping of diversity at the level of the individual as well as the population group. This has reinforced the idea that humans share the vast majority of their DNA and that the diversity that does exist cannot be parceled into biological categories that align with older categories of race, which are deeply implicated in the practices and…
Working against racism: Lessons from Latin America
It has often been asked if Latin America has any lessons in anti-racism for other regions. This kind of comparative approach reifies and homogenises regions as distinct "cases", obscuring common ground. In contrast, a relational approach highlights commonalities and suggests that learning experiences in developing anti-racism can be shared across and within different contexts. Examples from Ecuador and Mexico suggest that the historical relation …
Introduction: The turn to racism and anti-racism in Latin America
We are currently witnessing a turn to racism and anti-racism in Latin America. The recognition of racism is not new, but the attention and challenge to racism, in such an orchestrated way, is. What are the signals of such turn to racism and anti-racism? What are the overall lessons for Latin America and from Latin America to global antiracist efforts? This introduction looks at the arguments of the articles in this special issue to highlight how …
Contra o Racismo. Mobilização para a mudança social na América Latina: Mobilização para a Mudança Social Na América Latina
Narrativas poderosasdescrevem as nações latino-americanas comofundamentalmente mestiças. Essas narrativasdificultaram o reconhecimento do racismona região, mas as recentes viradasmulticulturalistas aumentaram oreconhecimento das culturas e das identidades negras eindígenas. O multiculturalismo podefocar em questões de identidade evisibilidade e abordar formas despreocupadas de racismo,mas também pode desviar a atenção doracismo estrutural e da de…
Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics
The intersection of race, ethnicity and genomics has recently been a focus of debate and concern. The key areas of debate are pharmacogenomics and, to a lesser extent, racial profiling in the criminal justice system. The former poses the question as to whether certain races are genetically predisposed towards given diseases and whether they metabolize drugs differently; with the latter debating whether DNA analyses accurately identify the race of…
Liberalism and Its Contradictions: Democracy and Hierarchy in Mestizaje and Genomics in Latin America
This article explores Latin American genomic studies of mestizaje and the way mestizaje’s inherent contradiction between equality and hierarchy—a contradiction typical of liberalism—is managed in genomics. In Latin America, ideologies and practices of mestizaje may be seen as an antidote to hierarchies of race and class, but also as a terrain for the enactment of these hierarchies. Mestizaje mediates this contradiction between equality and hierar…
El concepto de raza y la lucha contra el racismo
Este artículo analiza cómo los conceptos “raza” y “racismo” están presentes y ausentes en diferentes contextos sociales y cómo estas presencias y ausencias se relacionan con distintos valores sociales y visiones de lo que sería una sociedad deseable. Se exploran varios argumentos que abogan por el uso del concepto raza como elemento analítico, apoyándose en la idea que el concepto raza es útil para entender el fenómeno del racismo. Se aborda los …
Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies
The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data - brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body. The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impa…
Racism and Race Mixture in Latin America
This essay reviews the following works:Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina. Edited by Paulina Alberto and Eduardo Elena. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii + 373. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9781469617831
The tree and the net
This chapter examines two major spatio-temporal narratives embedded within human population genomic science. It explores what these narratives say about the evolution and history of humanity as a whole, and what their political implications are. One major narrative is embedded in a theory of evolution which explains how human populations developed in specific – often continent-sized – environmental niches, shaped by the classic evolutionary mecha…
Anthropology and Science: Epistemologies in Practice
1. Introduction: Epistemologies in Practice. Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey Harvey and Peter Wade (all University of Manchester) 2. Astrophysics, Anthropology and Other Imperial Pursuits. Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge) 3. Industry Going Public: Rethinking Knowledge and Administration. Alberto Corsin-Jimenez (University of Manchester) 4. Rationality and Contingency: Rhetoric, Practice and Legitimation in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Catherine Ale…
Doing the individual and the collective in forensic genetics: Governance, race and restitution
Commentary to: Doing the individual and the collective in forensic genetics: governance, race and restitution
Relaciones inter-étnicas en el Urabá chocoano
Relaciones inter-tnicas en el Urab chocoanoPeterWade 1 IntroduccinUrab es una de las regiones ms ambiguas del pas.Lugar de los primeros asentamientos hispnicos, abandonados dentro de poco ante la hostilidad indgena, la regin ha sido el objeto de continuas luchas regionales, cambiando de dueo entre la Costa Atlntica, la provincia de Popayn (inclu
Espacio, región y racializacion en Colombia
Propongo que, para entender la reproduccin de la desigualdad racializada y la operacin del racismo, hay que apreciar como la interseccin sociedad-espacio acumula dimensiones racializadas a travs de la historia. En Colombia, las diferencias racializadas que iban surgiendo y tomando forma en el orden colonial al mismo tiempo iban adquiriendo unas dimensiones espacializadas. En este artculo, primero se aborda la relacin terica sociedad-espacio y, lu…
Sonic ethnography: Identity, heritage and creative research practice in Basilicata, southern Italy
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
Tomás Pérez Vejo Y Pablo Yankelevich (Coords.): Raza y política en Hispanoamérica. Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México / Bonilla Artigas, 2016
This is a welcome addition to the Spanish-language literature on the history of the intersections of race and nation in Latin America.Its scope is broader than that of "Hispanic America," as refered to in the title, since Brazil receives treatment in a chapter by Jeffrey Lesser and is included as part of the "South," as discussed by Patricia Funes who compares Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia.The treatment is historical -the authors are historians,…
Eugenics, Epigenetics, and Obesity Predisposition among Mexican Mestizos
We compare the discourses on obesity found in early- and mid-twentieth century Mexican public discourse with those of Mexican geneticists and doctors today. We argue that postgenomic shifts towards non-determinism, apparently contained in current openness to epigenetics, need to be considered alongside the persistence of racialized genetic determinisms, and alongside the potential for epigenetic environmental determinisms. By exploring the enviro…
Afro-Indigenous Interactions, Relations, and Comparisons
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Rethinking Mestizaje: Ideology and Lived Experience
The ideology of mestizaje (mixture) in Latin America has frequently been seen as involving a process of national homogenisation and of hiding a reality of racist exclusion behind a mask of inclusiveness. This view is challenged here through the argument that mestizaje inherently implies a permanent dimension of national differentiation and that, while exclusion undoubtedly exists in practice, inclusion is more than simply a mask. Case studies dra…
The cultural politics of blackness in Colombia
Recent political mobilization by blacks in Colombia challenges notions about the "invisibility" of blackness there and the structural difficulties of political mobilization. It also raises issues about the analysis of cultural politics and the deconstruction of cultural "inventions" without thereby invalidating them as a locus of ethnic solidarity. [cultural invention, identity, black culture, politics, Colombia
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
For over ten years, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America has been an essential text for students studying the region. This second edition adds new material and brings the analysis up to date. Race and ethnic identities are increasingly salient in Latin America. Peter Wade examines changing perspectives on Black and Indian populations in the region, tracing similarities and differences in the way these peoples have been seen by academics and nation…
Race', Nature and Culture
Cet article resume la facon dont le concept de race a ete defini par rapport a l'opposition nature/culture. Il est demontre que ces definitions, qui acceptent de maniere acritique les variations phenotypiques, tendent a perpetuer le concept de race de maniere problematique. Ce point est illustre par un re-examen de l'opposition classique entre la situation raciale aux Etats-Unis et en Amerique Latine ; on conclut que, la aussi, les categories nat…
Racial identity and nationalism: A theoretical view from Latin America
The empirical intersection of ideas about race and nation are well-established, but theoretical explanations for this are less developed. Some ideas are advanced about how and why ideologies of race, nation, gender and sexuality intertwine. This leads on to a consideration of the tensions between sameness and difference that are argued to be constitutive of national identities. From here, an argument is developed about dynamics of appropriation a…
Images of Latin American mestizaje and the politics of comparison
Working Culture: Making Cultural Identities in Cali, Colombia
There is a tension in social theory between approaches which privilege practice and those focusing on discourse. Such dualisms have recently been challenged, for example, in the analysis of social movements, by perspectives which seek to overcome divisions between culture and politics. I argue that these challenges can be promoted by focusing on the tension between culture as a human activity of working in the world, in which the material and the…
Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America
Mixture as a Biopo liti cal Pro cessThis book is about mixture as a biopo liti cal pro cess and how it has figured in science and society in Latin Amer i ca-specifically, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.The immediate referent is "race mixture" or, in biological science, "gene tic admixture," and the key location is Latin Amer i ca.In this region, mestizaje (Spanish) or mestiçagem (Portuguese)-roughly translatable as mixture-is an impor tant concept …
The presence and absence of race
Wade examines the presence and absence of race, and David Theo Goldberg's thesis in The Threat of Race that racism under neoliberalism continues in hidden form, not named as such. Wade argues that Goldberg's approach privileges an overly institutional presence for race and thus loses sight of the real and continuing presence of race in contemporary societies, especially notable in biotechnological and genomic contexts. This depends on defining ra…
Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics
Recent work on genomics and race makes the argument that concepts and categories of race are subtly reproduced in the practice of genomic science, despite the explicit rejection of race as meaningful biological reality by many geneticists. Our argument in this paper is that racialized meanings in genomics, rather than standing alone, are very often wrapped up in ideas about nation. This seems to us a rather neglected aspect in the literature abou…
Repensando el mestizaje
La ideología del mestizaje en América Latina ha sido vista con frecuencia como un proceso que involucra la homogeneización nacional y el ocultamiento de una realidad de exclusión racista detrás de una máscara de inclusión. Se cuestiona esta posición usando el argumento que el mestizaje implica una dimensión permanente de diferenciación nacional y que, mientras que la exclusión es sin duda alguna una realidad, la inclusión es más que una máscara. …
Building the genomic nation: Homo Brasilis' and the 'Genoma Mexicano' in comparative cultural perspective
This article explores the relationship between genetic research, nationalism and the construction of collective social identities in Latin America. It makes a comparative analysis of two research projects - the 'Genoma Mexicano' and the 'Homo Brasilis' - both of which sought to establish national and genetic profiles. Both have reproduced and strengthened the idea of their respective nations of focus, incorporating biological elements into debate…
Articulations of eroticism and race: Domestic service in Latin America
Service', particularly 'domestic service', operates as a specific articulation or intersection of processes of race, class, gender and age that reiterates images of the sexual desirability of some women racially marked by blackness or indigeneity in Latin America. The sexualisation of racially subordinated people has been linked to the exercise of power. This article focuses on an aspect of subordination related to the condition of being a servan…
Human Nature and Race
Most scholars argue that 'race' has no relation to human nature. A minority contend that it does. I argue that 'race' is a cultural category which can become an embodied part of the human experience. This embodiment helps account for the power of the idea of race
Negotiating Imagined Genetic Communities: Unity and Diversity in Brazilian Science and Society
In this article, we explore the ways in which genetic research reconfigures historically rooted debates on race and national identity by analyzing the intense debates that have taken place in the past decade in Brazil around the genetic profile of the nation's population. Such debates have not only featured a significant variety of interpretations by different geneticists but also involved the media, policy makers, and social movements. Here we f…
Skin colour and race as analytic concepts
Race and Other Misadventures: Essays in Honor of Ashley Montagu in His Ninetieth Year
Eugenics, Epigenetics, and Obesity Predisposition among Mexican Mestizos
We compare the discourses on obesity found in early- and mid-twentieth century Mexican public discourse with those of Mexican geneticists and doctors today. We argue that postgenomic shifts towards non-determinism, apparently contained in current openness to epigenetics, need to be considered alongside the persistence of racialized genetic determinisms, and alongside the potential for epigenetic environmental determinisms. By exploring the enviro…
Multiculturalismo y racismo
Este ensayo repiensa el papel que desempeña la racialización en Latinoamérica, y la pone en relación con el multiculturalismo. El multiculturalismo oficial no necesariamente conduce a la disminución del racismo y puede quedarse en gestos retóricos. Es necesario enfocar el racismo y el concepto de raza como fenómenos con historia y fuerza social propias. En este artículo se mira cómo este concepto ha sido marginado en las discusiones sobre la desi…
Introduction: The turn to racism and anti-racism in Latin America
We are currently witnessing a turn to racism and anti-racism in Latin America. The recognition of racism is not new, but the attention and challenge to racism, in such an orchestrated way, is. What are the signals of such turn to racism and anti-racism? What are the overall lessons for Latin America and from Latin America to global antiracist efforts? This introduction looks at the arguments of the articles in this special issue to highlight how …
Mestizaje and Conviviality in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico
This paper explores the history and meanings of mestizaje in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, and assessing its relationship to practices of conviviality. A brief overview of the colonial origins and significance of mixture is followed by an exploration of the way mestizaje figured as a nation-building discourse in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Challenges to the image of the mestizo nation that were stre…
Obesity, race and the indigenous origins of health risks among Mexican mestizos
We explore the discourses of Mexican scientists and doctors on genetics and obesity and how these relate to ideas about race, class and national identity. Drawing on interviews with geneticists and doctors treating obese children, the paper makes two contributions to the literature on race and medical science. First, although our data reveal familiar racializing tendencies among geneticists, a more nuanced view is needed, as medical doctors who a…
Hybridity Theory and Kinship Thinking
A parallel is posited between the ways hybridity and kinship are thought about in Western contexts, challenging the idea that kinship and biology tend to lead to narrow, roots-oriented, essentialized definitions of identity. Rather than being the opposite of rhizomic, diasporic hybridity, kinship and biology partake of the tension between roots and routes that is characteristic of all hybridity. Anthropological evidence on the character of Wester…
Music, blackness and national identity: Three moments in Colombian history
The study of music and national identity has been limited, in my view, by some underlying assumptions. The first is connected to some influential ideas on nationalism, while the second has to do with long-standing ideas about the relation between music and identity. On nationalism, many approaches place too much emphasis on the homogenising tendencies of nationalist discourse, whereas, in my view, homogenisation exists in a complex and ambivalent…
Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia
Higher education in Australia: Tertiary education in Australia: Report of the committee on the future of tertiary education in Australia to the Australian Universities Commission
Race and class: The case of South American blacks
Patterns of Race in Colombia
America is a standard feature in the comparison of black-white relations, past and present, in the two regions (Harris, 1974; Degler, 1971; Hoetink, 1973; Toplin, 1981). It stems from the fact that in the USA two overall categories are recognized, black and white: mulattoes and other black-white mixtures are included with the blacks to the extent that even people with more white than black heritage are assigned a black identity.1 In Latin America…
Lords of the tiger spirit: A history of the Caribs in colonial Venezuela and Guayana, 1498–1820
The Idea of Race in Latin America
Café con leche: Race, Class and National Image in Venezuela
Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and Text
Film reviews
The Dancer and the Dance Producer: National Film and Television School, and Royal Anthropological Institute; Director: Felicia Hughes‐Freeland; Camera: Amy Hardy; Sound and Editing: Felicia Hughes‐Freeland. Distributed by the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1P 5HS, U.K. Tel: (071) 387–0455; fax (071) 383–4235. 1988, color, 44 minutes, 16mm, 1/2 inch, NTSC, PAL. Rental £27.00 for 16mm, £12.00 for video in U.K. only; for…
Nation-States and Indians in Latin America
Blacks in Colonial Veracruz: Race, Ethnicity and Regional Development
The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
Race', Nature and Culture
Cet article resume la facon dont le concept de race a ete defini par rapport a l'opposition nature/culture. Il est demontre que ces definitions, qui acceptent de maniere acritique les variations phenotypiques, tendent a perpetuer le concept de race de maniere problematique. Ce point est illustre par un re-examen de l'opposition classique entre la situation raciale aux Etats-Unis et en Amerique Latine ; on conclut que, la aussi, les categories nat…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia. Peter Gow
Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia
Race in North America: The Evolution of a Worldview
Blackness and Race Mixture: The dynamics of racial identity in Colombia
The idea of "racial democracy" in Latin American populations has traditionally assumed that class is a more significant factor than race. But despite the emergence of a mestizo class - people who are culturally and racially mixed in the broadest sense - there remains a complex discrimination against blacks. To explain this phenomenon, Peter Wade focuses on the black population of the Choco province in Colombia - an area where the typical Latin Am…
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia
Mestizaje in Ibero-America. CLAUDIO Esteva-Fabregat
The cultural politics of blackness in Colombia
Recent political mobilization by blacks in Colombia challenges notions about the "invisibility" of blackness there and the structural difficulties of political mobilization. It also raises issues about the analysis of cultural politics and the deconstruction of cultural "inventions" without thereby invalidating them as a locus of ethnic solidarity. [cultural invention, identity, black culture, politics, Colombia
Race
Race and Other Misadventures: Essays in Honor of Ashley Montagu in His Ninetieth Year
Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds
Music, blackness and national identity: Three moments in Colombian history
The study of music and national identity has been limited, in my view, by some underlying assumptions. The first is connected to some influential ideas on nationalism, while the second has to do with long-standing ideas about the relation between music and identity. On nationalism, many approaches place too much emphasis on the homogenising tendencies of nationalist discourse, whereas, in my view, homogenisation exists in a complex and ambivalent…
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
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