Defining Blackness in Colombia

Bibliographic Data

ID2632857
AuthorsP Wade (0000-0003-4070-4187, University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume95
Issue1
Pages165-184
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal de la Société des Américanistes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-9174 • E-ISSN: 1957-7842
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/jsa.10783
OpenAlexW1879697507
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited23

Defining Blackness in Colombia. This paper looks at the complex relationship between concepts employed by social scientists and those used in everyday practice and discourse, arguing that the standard ideas about how ideas travel from one domain (state, academe, social movements, everyday usage) to another, and become essentialised or destabilised in the process, are often too simple. Changing definitions of blackness in Colombia, through the process of multiculturalist reform and after, are examined with a view to exploring which categories of actors were influential in shaping these definitions and which were involved in essentialisations and de-essentialisations

Domain (mathematical analysis) · Epistemology · Everyday life · Performance art · Process (computing) · Simple (philosophy) · Social practice · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · History · History and Politics in Latin America · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America

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