From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Contemporary Ethnoracial Law in Multicultural Ecuador
The “Changing Same” of Anti-Black Racism as Revealed by Two Lawsuits Filed by Afrodescendants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J M Rahier (0000-0002-0526-4860, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | S22 |
| Pages | S248-S259 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/710061 |
| OpenAlex | W3081353413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 31 |
In this article I examine the unfolding-within and beyond a court of law-of two relatively recent litigations initiated by Afrodescendants, in which two different antidiscrimination legal instruments provided the grounding for the cases' "resolutions." The argument suggests that contemporary ethnoracial legal instruments have failed to interrupt the reproduction of structural racism, or of what Tanya Hernández has called "race regulation customary law." One of the lessons of this essay is certainly to point to anti-Black racism's resilience, as it transforms itself as needed to better survive in also changing sociopolitical configurations. The essay uncovers the continuing operations of the Ecuadorian racial order in the very spaces and situations-the courtrooms of the justice system and beyond-where it is supposed to be combated, frontally. It reveals the inadequacy of contemporary antidiscrimination legal instruments to deal more holistically with the many facets of the situation and impacts of anti-Black racism and race regulation customary law on Afrodescendants' affects and emotions, and the making and remaking of their precarity
Argument (complex analysis · Diversity (politics · Multiculturalism · Political science · Precarity · Race (biology · Racism · Reproduction · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Race, History, and American Society
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Designs for the Pluriverse
Cultural transformations and ethnicity in modern Ecuador
Blackness without Ethnicity
On Decoloniality
Introduction
Linguistics and Indigenous American Languages
The zapatista opening
Stategraphy
The Hybrid Campaign
Global Circuits of Blackness
Sounds Authentic
Blackness in the Andes
Becoming Black Political Subjects
Imagined communities
Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil
Indigenous Inclusion/Black Exclusion
Multiculturalism, Legal Pluralism and Local Government in Colombia
The Institutional Framework of Colonial Spanish America
Women and Legal Pluralism
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Entre lo indio, lo negro, y lo incaico
Introduction
Indigenous Empowerment or State Instrumentalization? The Formalization of Indigenous Justices in Michoacán, México
The Effects of Formal Legal Pluralism on Indigenous Authorities in the Ecuadorian Highlands
Racializing Affect
Globalization and Postcolonial States
Evaluating the usefulness of contemporary ethnoracial law for Afrodescendants in Latin America through the examination of court cases and the appreciation of the state's processual nature
Anti-discrimination law in two legal cases in multicultural Ecuador
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |