Write: Raúl Mendoza.
Picture: Marcos Rojas.
ANALYSIS ON SUBJECT AFRO IN PERU • American Afro John Thomas III, expert in International Subjects, made studies on afro communities in Peru during a year.
• indicates that Been Peruvian it does not have political defined for this minority.
–So that one was interested in studying the afroperuano subject in Peru?
–In my country I studied in the Morehouse College, a black university, that treats these subjects. Later I went to the Dominican Republic and there I saw what is to be afrolatino. When I obtained the Fulbrigth scholarship for an independent investigation I chose Peru, because unlike which it had seen, here the black yes are a minority.
– Is problematic a different one?
–Yes. In addition to being minority, in Peru the black community is dispersed. And also I chose east country by the fujimorista dictatorship, because interested in the policy and the civil society we know that Peru has undergone much. And little is known the problematic one of the black. Here it is spoken more of cholo, the Andean…
