Peter Wade is a British

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

who specialises in issues of race and

ethnicity An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

. Peter Wade is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wade, Peter Academics of the University of Manchester Living people British anthropologists People associated with The Institute for Cultural Research 1957 births