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Racialization of Arts in Madrid and Latin American Resilience through Performance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2292889
AutoresAntonio Marcos Chaves (0000-0002-5702-827X, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, autor de correspondencia), Angeles Montalvo Chaves
Año2015
Volumen23
Número1
Páginas14-26
Fecha de publicación2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransforming Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1051-0559 • E-ISSN: 1548-7466
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/traa.12035
OpenAlexW1487744253
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas10

In Madrid, members of the theater company Entrecalles, which had been formed mainly by Latin American artists, experienced serious racial forms of marginalization. Through their phenotypic traits, their corporeal differentiation as Indigenous and Metizos evinces racist definitions under postcolonialism. This case study ties cultural resilience to political agendas and connects “citizenship status” to “citizenship artistic presence.” By exploring the extent to which immigrant regulations can deprive Entrecalles artists of full citizenship in governmental domains, the article exposes the existing interrelationship between their performances and their presence as citizens in the city. Their efforts to sustain artistic practices beyond non-institutionalized spheres reveal institutional boundaries that pose difficulties for their public expression. However, the intercultural dialogues they maintain regarding libre arenas enable them to negotiate a “creation of spaces” which connect capital resources and city itineraries, and to emerge as political and artistic citizens

Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Immigration · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Racialization · Racism · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Social Psychology