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offers a detailed and diverse analysis of the cultural politics of blackness in contemporary Ecuador. This is accompanied by high-quality photographs available on Blackness in the Andes' associated website. Ecuador is a national context in which both scholarly and popular discourse on identity and difference have long neglected African descendants, instead focusing on the indigenous population so important to the Andean region generally, and the mestizo population considered most representative of the citizenry. Rahier's analysis is therefore both rare and impressively farreaching in its coverage of a population in Ecuador, and Afro-Latin America, which remains relatively understudied. Blackness in the Andes feels historically sedimented: it is the product of ethnography that extends into the late 1980s and six of the eight chapters are updated or reconfigured versions of essays previously published elsewhere between 1998 and 2012. The other two chapters, including one coauthored with Mamyrah Dougé
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