Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America

Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He has led several large multi-country projects that support anti-racist activism in Latin America. He is the author, most recently, of Against Racism (2022, co-edited with Mónica Moreno Figueroa). Lúcia Sá is Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Manchester. She has worked extensively on Indigenous literature and culture from Brazil. She is the author of Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin American Cultures (2004). Ignacio Aguiló is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Darkening Nation: Race, Neoliberalism and Crisis in Argentina (2008).

• List of figures; List of contributors; Foreword Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa; Preface; Introduction Peter Wade, Lúcia Sá, Ignacio Aguiló, Carlos Correa Angulo, Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Ana Vivaldi; Curated conversation 1. Anti-racist art in the UK and Latin America; Part I. Art and Anti-Racism in the Nation: 1. Unveiling racialised difference in Colombia: insights from artists and artistic practices Peter Wade, Carlos Correa Angulo, Mara Viveros Vigoya, Rossana Alarcón and Liliana Angulo Cortés, 2. Demarcating the imaginary: indigenous anti-racist art and literature in Brazil Lúcia Sá, Pedro Mandagará and Felipe Milanez Pereira; 3. Challenging whiteness and Europeanness in Argentine cultural production Ezequiel Adamovsky, Ignacio Aguiló, Alejandro Frigerio and Ana Vivaldi; Curated conversation 2. Decolonising the arts in Latin America: anti-racist irruptions in the art world; Part II. Artistic Practices, Racism and Anti-Racism: 4. Resistance in motion: dance and anti-racism in the Afro-contemporary dance of Sankofa Danzafro Carlos Correa and Rafael Palacios; Curated conversation 3. On curatorship; 5. Indigenous art and anti-racism in Brazil: perspectives from the Véxoa: we know exhibition Naine Terena and Jamille Pinheiro Dias; Curated conversation 4. The power of Guarani rap; 6. Poetics and theatrical investigations as the reconstruction of Afro-Latin American and Mapuche lives in Argentina Ana Vivaldi, Lorena Cañuqueo, Miriam Alvarez and Alejandra Egido; Curated conversation 5. Casa adentro (inside the house): anti-racist art practices; 7. Art and anti-racism in Latin American racial formations Peter Wade; Final reflections Arissana Pataxó, Miriam Alvarez, Lorena Cañuqueo, Alejandra Egido and Wilson Borja; Bibliography; Index.