The intersection of race and sex in Latin America is a subject touched upon bymany disciplines but this is the only book that deals soley with these issues.Inte... » 

The intersection of race and sex in Latin America is a subject touched upon bymany disciplines but this is the only book that deals soley with these issues.Interracial sexual relations are often a key mythic basis for Latin Americannational identities but these concepts are underexplored in English languageworks. Peter Wade provides a pioneering overview of the growing literature onrace and sex in the region covering historical aspects and contemporarydebates. He includes both black and indigenous people in the frame as well asmixed and white people avoiding the implication that race means blackwhite relations. Challenging but accessible this book will appeal across thesocial sciences particularly to students of anthropology gender studies andLatin American studies. «