Peter Wade is a British

United Kingdom

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 anthropologist who specializes in issues of race and ethnicity in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

. Peter Wade is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

. 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.

• 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.
• 1993 Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Series in Atlantic History and Culture. 1993.