Peter Wade

British anthropologist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish anthropologist
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
isAnthropologist
Work fieldSocial science
Gender
Male
Birth16 August 1957
Age67 years
Star signLeo
Education
University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy(1981—1985)
The details

Biography

Peter Wade is a British anthropologist who specializes in issues of race and ethnicity in Latin America. Peter Wade is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. 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.

  • 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.
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