Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester. He has written extensively on race and ethnicity in Latin America, with particular reference to black populations. His most recent articles are “Mestizaje, Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Violence”, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 11(3), 2016, p. 323-343, and “Liberalism and its Contradictions: Democracy and Hierarchy in Mestizaje and Genomics in Latin America”, Latin American Research Review, 52(3), 2016