Carla Guerrón Montero is a cultural and applied anthropologist trained in Latin America and the United States, and specialized in studies of the African diaspora.  Dr. Guerrón Montero studies the complex and multiple meanings and representations of identity among marginalized populations in modern Latin American and Caribbean nation-states (more specifically in Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, and Grenada).  She explores how Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean populations create and represent their identities historically, using a framework that considers the political economy and other variables that generate the generally oppressive or neglectful nation-states to which these populations belong, their contributions to nation and region formation, and the changes that result from more recent global phenomena, such as tourism.  Within these processes, she examines issues related to representations of culturally racialized and gendered identities manifested through music, cuisine, ritual and festivities.

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