The following article by C. J. Schexnayder, posted on his blog Andean Currents, is available in full here.

The plight of Afro-Peruvians has long been overshadowed by the conflict
between the Spanish and Indian cultures but there is reason to believe
that could be changing.

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Current estimates put the black population in Peru between 5 and 10
percent of the estimated 28 million residents of the country. By
contrast, between 44 and 70 percent of the population of Brazil – about
200 million – are black.

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Many of the blacks who were brought to Peru by the Spanish were not originally from Africa but from other colonies.
As a result they had already been assimilated into the Hispanic culture
– a fact that placed them in an uneasy social position above the native
Indian populace.

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Today, Peru even celebrates Afro-Peruvian Culture Day on June 4, the birthday of famed folklorist Nicomedes Santa Cruz.

A little more about Black Peru here.

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