This seminar will present the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and two of its principal outputsAbout this Event
This seminar will present the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America (CARLA) and two of its principal outputs: an online exhibition and an edited volume, Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America (CUP, 2026). Given the diversity of the project, Prof Peter Wade will then present his own take on some of the possibilities for anti-racism in artistic practice. Drawing on the work of some of the artists he collaborated with in CARLA, Prof Wade will explore two types of intervention that can represent different ways of doing anti-racism through art: a) challenging stereotypes; and b) working with communities. Prof Wade will explore how selected artworks engage with these modes of artistic action and how they create emotional traction and affective intensity. The aim of the exercise is to provide some tools that artists and organisations can use to think strategically about anti-racism as a practice and reflect on the opportunities and risks that attach to different interventions.
Peter Wade is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His publications include Blackness and Race Mixture (1993), Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (2010), Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (2002), and Race and Sex in Latin America (2009), Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America (2014), Race: An Introduction (2015), and Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism and Race in Latin America (2017). In 2017-19, with Mónica Moreno Figueroa, he co-directed a project on “Latin American Antiracism in a ‘Post-Racial’ Age” from which has emerged a book, edited with Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Against racism: organizing for social change in Latin America (Pittsburgh University Press, 2022). He recently directed a project on “Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America” (2020-23) - see Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America (2026, edited with Lúcia Sá and Ignacio Aguiló) - and was co-investigator on a project titled “Comics and Race in Latin America” (2021-24), which has an edited volume forthcoming, Comics and Race in Latin America.
Chair: Paulo Drinot
Event venue
Room 103, 51 Gordon Sq, 51 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom
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