Black or Afro-Colombian? disputes over racial/ethnic classifications in the colombian censuses
This article analyzes how the inclusion or omission of race/ethnicity classifications in the Colombian censuses, contributed to create, legitimize, and update representations about Afro-Colombian populations, about the place of race in society and the nature of social relations. Beyond being instrum...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) |
| Repositorio: | Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/42907 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/42907 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Afro-colombians Census Race Multiculturalism Afrocolombianos Censos Raza Multiculturalismo Afrocolombiano Censo Raça |
| Sumario: | This article analyzes how the inclusion or omission of race/ethnicity classifications in the Colombian censuses, contributed to create, legitimize, and update representations about Afro-Colombian populations, about the place of race in society and the nature of social relations. Beyond being instruments of statistical science, censuses have been powerful state mechanisms to support political projects where race -with its correlates of ethnicity- has been central in the construction of social order. In recent decades, censuses and racial/ethnic classifications have left the exclusive domain of the state, to become a field of dispute between various social actors that understand them as a political instrument to guide multicultural policies in favor of Afro-Colombians and build new narratives about the Colombian nation. |
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