Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
From Afro-Colombians to Afro-Descendants: The Trajectory of Black Social Movements in Colombia, 1990–2010
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Published:May 2017
Kiran Asher, 2017. "From Afro-Colombians to Afro-Descendants: The Trajectory of Black Social Movements in Colombia, 1990–2010", Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America, Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes
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This chapter critically examines the strategies and achievements of Afro-Colombian social movements from the late 1980s to 2000. Informed by Gramsci’s insights about the relationship between the state and civil society and postcolonial feminist scholarship, the chapter’s analysis steers clear of binary explanations of power and resistance. It finds that the outcomes of black organizing are contradictory and contingent on different factors. Afro-Colombians have gained remarkable national and global visibility partly because of Colombia’s official multiculturalism, and of Law 70 of 1993, which grants ethnic, territorial, and socioeconomic rights to black communities. But even as several tenets of Law 70 are implemented, black communities have been caught in the crossfire of the accelerated armed conflict in the region and are specific targets of violence, death, and displacement. Afro-Colombian struggles continue in the face of renewed forms of social exclusion and exacerbation in existing inequalities.
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