Blackness in the Andes: Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas—Ecuador: Creolization/Malleability in the Time of Interculturalismo and Neo-Essentialism....Pages 9-35
Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jews in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of Semana Santa....Pages 37-64
From Panacea for Harmonious Race Relations to Ideological Tool for Oppression and National Identity Imagination: Reflections from the Andes on mestizaje through Time and Space....Pages 65-88
Afrodescendants, the Multicultural Turn and the “New” Latin American Constitutions and Other Special Legislations: Particularities of the Andean Region....Pages 89-103
A Glimpse at Afro-Ecuadorian Politics, Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes, and State Corporatism....Pages 105-120
Blackness, the Racial-Spatial Order at Work, and Beauty Contest Politics: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento, and the Negra Permitida....Pages 121-146
Stereotypes of Hypersexuality and the Embodiment of Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador....Pages 147-174
Fútbol and the (tri-)Color of the Ecuadorian Nation: Ideological and Visual (Dis-) Continuities of Black Otherness from Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism....Pages 175-197
Back Matter....Pages 199-243