CS No. 12

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Afro-descendant Trajectories: A Methodological Reflection
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Matos Díaz, Manuel
This article offers a reflection about how we think of Afro-descendant people as objects or subjects of study. To do this, it reflects on the question: How does the study of Afrodescendant peoples change when the so-called “unit of analysis” is not a slave, but an enslaved ancestor who is part of your contemporary cosmology? The way of arriving at this question, and the analysis presented henceforth attempts to highlight key aspects for advancing Afro-descendant scholarship: specifically the role of black feminist thought and practices on ancestral consciousness; and its subsequent impact on the interpretation and production of historical and socio-political sources.
Agroindustria y extractivismo en el Alto Cauca. Impactos sobre los sistemas de subsistencia Afrocampesinos y resistencias (1950-2011)
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Rátiva Gaona, Sandra; Vélez Torres, Irene; Salcedo Fidalgo, Andrés; Varela Corredor, Daniel
Agroindustry and extractivism have generated profound changes in the traditional economic practices in the Alto Cauca in Colombia, to the detriment of the socio-economic livelihood systems of the local Afro-descendent farmer population. Intense armed conflict and forced migration have accompanied the establishment of models of accumulation by dispossession. Utilizing a participatory research methodology, this article critically analyzes the dispute over access to and ownership of the land and environmental assets of the territory. Thus, it aims to foreground the perspective of the Afro-descendent communities and social organizations that have, since the colonial period and continuing to the present day, defended their peoples and territories through resistance
Contradicciones discursivas en procesos de intervención social diferencial a la diversidad étnico-racial negra en programas sociales en Colombia
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) León Díaz, Ruby Esther; Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, Claudia Patricia
This article highlights the discursive contradictions present in state social interventions linked to social action when referring to socially vulnerable and/or impoverished Black and indigenous people. Firstly, it will analyze the discourses of those intervening about the proposals for the implementation of mechanisms of preferential access or of ethnoracial exclusivity of beneficiaries in programs to combat poverty. Secondly, it will explore their epistemic resistance to the incorporation of “racial group” or “skin color” as selection criteria. In doing so, the article aims to propose that institutions of social well-being need to transform and that social services should adapt to the demands of cultural diversity, adopting both new professional practices and renewed structures of meaning that facilitate the transition to nation as imagined in the Constitution
Empoderamiento, descolonización y democracia sustantiva. Afinando principios ético-políticos para las diásporas Afroamericanas
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Laó Montes, Agustín
This article, focused on analyzing the struggles of Afro-descendent populations, highlights the need to formulate clear answers to a series of key questions: What should the role of Afro-descendents and their demands be in the new politics of decolonialization and liberation? How do their demands fall within projects for the democratization of “democracy” in different spheres of justice? How should the gains achieved through the emergence of a sphere of Afro-descendent racial politics and through the spaces opened both nationally and transnationally be combined with grassroots organizing strategies and demands aimed at radical reforms for a more just and equitable society? As a way of addressing these questions, the first part of the text explores the historical significance of the Afro-American Diaspora. The second part briefly discusses the ethical-political principles of decolonialization, democracy and liberation from the perspective of the historical centrality of the subjects of modern Africania. Finally, the third section proffers some practical observations on the implications of colonial diasporic perspectives, both at the level of public policy as well as that of theory and politics of Afro-descendent social movements.
El estudio de los problemas de la población Negra
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Du Bois, Burghardt
This article proposes an agenda of sociological research for studying the issues facing the black population in the United States. The first section describes the way in which these issues have developed as a product of the exploitative relationships within the slavery system. The second evaluates the current problems of the black population in the process of the formation of the State after emancipation, among which the deficient economic situation and the impossibility of equalizing the social efficiency of blacks with the other social groups in the nation stand out. The third section discusses the need to study the problems of the black population carefully, while the fourth describes the work that has been done along these lines. Finally, the fifth section proposes a program of study for the future, one which the State and academia appear to be the institutions best equipped to lead.
Folclore, raza y racismo en la política cultural e intelectual de Delia Zapata Olivella. El campo político-intelectual Afrocolombiano
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Valderrama Rentería, Carlos Alberto
This article explores the concepts of folklore, race and racism in the intellectual work of Delia Zapata Olivella. It attempts, through a deep interpretation of her work, to show that the constructions of meaning of the author propose a social and cultural description of the racial order in Colombia. Toward this end, it will reflect on the organization of the Afro-Colombian politic-intellectual field in order to then drawing some conclusions about the way in which Delia Zapata conceived of folklore, race and racism in her work.
La grafía manzaniana: el lenguaje escrito mediante la metáfora y la prosopopeya
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Cosme Puntiel, Carmen
This article is a narrative analysis of Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1853)’s Autobiografía de un esclavo (1835). It aims to give visibility to Juan Francisco Manzano as a 19th century Cuban intellectual and situates his writings within the afrodiasporic and Afrolatino ancestral heritage. The article examines the literary strategies deployed by the author in writing his testimonies such as intertextual figures in the picaresque prose and his privileged position as a narrator that deliberately mixes different aspects of his narrative disturbing the readership. Finally, the article presents an analysis of the metaphoric language deployed by Manzano through the interpretation of recurring themes in his autobiography. James Olney and Paul de Man’s theoretical framework are deployed to build an argument on the multiplicity of “self ” and/or “voices” that emerge from the Manzanian metaphoric narrative.
Interrogando el racismo. Hacia una Antropología antirracista
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Mullings, Leith
Over the past several decades, global manifestations of racism have undergone significant transformations. The anticolonial struggle, the civil rights movement, and the antiapartheid offensive have challenged the former established racial regimes. But the consolidation of global capitalism has also created new forms of racialization. A variety of antiracist strategies and interventions have emerged to confront new racisms. Analyses of racism have sought to interrogate its history and contemporary manifestations, how it is maintained and reproduced, and to predict its future. Anthropologists and other social scientists are challenged to develop theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to advance our understanding of these new manifestations of race and racism.
Movilidades y resistencias de los caribes negros. Pasado y presente de los garífuna
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Agudelo, Carlos
The black Caribs, or Garifuna, have populated the Caribbean coasts of four Central American countries (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) since the end of the eighteenth century. Through a continual process of migration begun in the mid-twentieth century, much of its population currently lives in the United States. The transnationality of the original establishment of their community in Central America and that of their more recent presence in the U.S. have always been accompanied by a rich flow of identity symbols. These symbols articulate diverse ethno-racial representations that have transformed due to the impact of national, global and regional political and social processes to the point of becoming generically identified as a part of the larger Afro-descendent community. This article aims to present, from a historical perspective, the dynamics of the construction of Garifuna identities, the actors involved in these processes and their political dynamics.
Percepciones y prácticas corporales estéticas de un grupo de jóvenes universitarias Afrodescendientes de Cali
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Ortiz Piedrahíta, Vanessa
This article presents the results of a qualitative study of the perceptions held and bodily practices performed by a group of Afro-descendent students with regard to their own bodies and appearances. It discusses how this group of students partially reproduces socio-culturally transmitted hegemonic ideals of beauty, and in doing so recreates a hybrid aesthetic model that values black beauty in connection with globally disseminated aesthetic standards.
“¿Por quién votará usted?”: Campaña política y comicios para la presidencia de la República de Colombia, 1946
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Ararat, Catalina
This article seeks to understand how the 1946 Colombian presidential campaign coverage in the conservative Cali newspaper Diario del Pacífico promoted the Conservative candidate Mariano Ospina Pérez by differentiating him from Liberal candidates Gabriel Turbay Avinader and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. It argues that this differentiation was achieved by a series of representations constructed through the interaction of “mechanics” and “content”. While “mechanics” will try to show how the positive and negative representations of the candidates were constructed, the “content” will give account of what was said about each candidate, this is, the content of such representations.
Simbioses de um conflito. Desplazamiento e identidade negra na Colômbia
(Universidad Icesi, 2013-07-01) Rodrígues, Vera
Colombia, home to the second largest black population in Latin America after Brazil, has experienced a social phenomenon that severely affects this segment of the population: forced displacement. By applying an anthropological perspective to the subject, this article analyzes policies and laws enacted to guarantee the rights of the displaced AfroColombian population, making note of their contradictions and limits. It proposes to raise some points of conflict in ethno-racial relations that pervade the dialogue between the state and Colombian society.

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