Fernando Esquivel-Suarez
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fernando Esquivel-Suarez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fernando |
| FAMILY NAME | Esquivel-Suarez |
| SIGNATURE | ESQUIVEL-SUAREZ F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Spelman College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Being Brown, Being Down
People Don’t Give Up
In 2017 images of demonstrations, riot police, and tanks filled social media worldwide. Most of the videos and media coverage reported on the first wave of #BlackLivesMatter uprisings were catalyzed by police brutality in Ferguson, New York, and Baltimore. In June of that year, similar footage came from Buenaventura, on the Pacific coast of Colombia. This predominantly Afro-descendantpo rt city is responsible for the transit of about 60 percent o…
The Wiz Khalifa Controversy and Hip-Hop's Pablo Escobar Archives
This article analyzes the controversy caused in 2017 by US rapper Wiz Khalifa's narco-tour photos in Medellín, Colombia. Narco-tours are day-long excursions through the mobster Pablo Escobar's landmarks in the city: his properties, the neighborhoods he built, and the roof where the police killed him after years of waging war against the Colombian state. Unlike the polemic films and series on the Colombian drug lord, the Wiz Khalifa controversy wa…
Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia. Massacre at Buenavista-Bojayá-Chocó
Aurora Vergara-Figueroa's book Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia is a leap forward in analyzing the Colombian conflict from what writer Alice Walker would call a womanist perspective. This Black feminist frame allows Vergara-Figueroa to connect a particular event-the massacre of Bellavista, Bojay in 2002-to structural violence against Afro-Colombian communities and to capitalism's global color line. Using this approach and ext…
The Wiz Khalifa Controversy and Hip-Hop's Pablo Escobar Archives
This article analyzes the controversy caused in 2017 by US rapper Wiz Khalifa's narco-tour photos in Medellín, Colombia. Narco-tours are day-long excursions through the mobster Pablo Escobar's landmarks in the city: his properties, the neighborhoods he built, and the roof where the police killed him after years of waging war against the Colombian state. Unlike the polemic films and series on the Colombian drug lord, the Wiz Khalifa controversy wa…
Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia. Massacre at Buenavista-Bojayá-Chocó
Aurora Vergara-Figueroa's book Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia is a leap forward in analyzing the Colombian conflict from what writer Alice Walker would call a womanist perspective. This Black feminist frame allows Vergara-Figueroa to connect a particular event-the massacre of Bellavista, Bojay in 2002-to structural violence against Afro-Colombian communities and to capitalism's global color line. Using this approach and ext…
The Wiz Khalifa Controversy and Hip-Hop's Pablo Escobar Archives
This article analyzes the controversy caused in 2017 by US rapper Wiz Khalifa's narco-tour photos in Medellín, Colombia. Narco-tours are day-long excursions through the mobster Pablo Escobar's landmarks in the city: his properties, the neighborhoods he built, and the roof where the police killed him after years of waging war against the Colombian state. Unlike the polemic films and series on the Colombian drug lord, the Wiz Khalifa controversy wa…
People Don’t Give Up
In 2017 images of demonstrations, riot police, and tanks filled social media worldwide. Most of the videos and media coverage reported on the first wave of #BlackLivesMatter uprisings were catalyzed by police brutality in Ferguson, New York, and Baltimore. In June of that year, similar footage came from Buenaventura, on the Pacific coast of Colombia. This predominantly Afro-descendantpo rt city is responsible for the transit of about 60 percent o…
Being Brown, Being Down
Political science (2 works) · Afro-Latin American Studies (1 work) · Art (1 work) · brown skin (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia (1 work) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (1 work) · Critical Race Theory in Education (1 work) · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies (1 work) · Ethnic identity (1 work)