Commentaries on Peter Wade’s “Defining Blackness in Colombia”
In this paper Peter Wade addresses two important issues for students of the social construction of racial categories: the genealogy of different concepts of blackness in Twentieth Century Colombia and the ambiguities of racial concepts for the different actors involved: the population itself, cultu...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | In this paper Peter Wade addresses two important issues for students of the social construction of racial categories: the genealogy of different concepts of blackness in Twentieth Century Colombia and the ambiguities of racial concepts for the different actors involved: the population itself, cultural activists, academics, international organizations and national state organizations. He shows how the circulation of these concepts is a complex thing and that tracing their origin is not enough... |
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