Since the emergence of what academia now calls Afro-Latin American studies, the study of Blackness and Afro-descendance in Andean countries has been limited.

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the humanities and social sciences to address diverse topics including Afro-Peruvian identity, cultural representation, racial resistance, and ethno-racial legislation in Peru. In this volume, rather than conceptualize Afro-Peruvians as either present or absent, contributors examine the dynamic ways that interlocking historical, social, and political forces shape Afro-Peruvian (in)visibility and their claims to citizenship.

With a broad and diverse look at Afro-Peruvianness, Afro-Peruvian subjectivity, and Afro-Peruvian identity in Peru, this book add to the emergent body of literature in the fields of African Diaspora, Afro-Latin American, and Afro-Peruvian studies.

Likewise, it aims to provide the reader with an opportunity to deepen their knowledge about Afro-Peruvianness, and to evaluate what their presence/absence means in the context of Afro-Latin American and African Diaspora Studies, and the Peruvian nation.