Sino-Peruvian Identity and Community as Prison: Siu Kam Wen's Rendering of Self-Exploitation and Other Survival Strategies.
Peru's ethnic composition is dominated by Amerindians (45-47%) and mestizos (32-37%), followed by people of European descent (12-15%), with blacks and mulattos representing 2%, and Asians (Chinese and Japanese) only 1% of the population (approximately 250,000 of a total of 22 million inhabitants, ac...
| Publicado en: | Afro-Hispanic Review Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 73 - 92 |
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Afro-Hispanic Review
Spr 2008
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