M anuel Z apata O livella , Racial Politics and Pan-Africanism in Colombia in the 1970s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8874684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Correa Ochoa (0000-0002-6354-7551, Rice University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 457-489 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/tam.2022.6 |
| OpenAlex | W4281669853 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
The First Congress of Black Culture of the Americas, held in Cali, Colombia, in August 1977 and organized by Afro-Colombian intellectual Manuel Zapata Olivella, was the first Pan-Africanist conference held in Latin America. This paper examines the obstacles Afro-Latin American activists faced in organizing a racially defined event and analyzes how they articulated their own interpretations of black radical politics. It shows that a Pan-Africanist event in Latin America had to account for ideologies of racial harmony and mixture. Observers throughout the region mobilized these ideas to discredit the First Congress as a racist and illegitimate threat to mestizo nationhood. Afro-Latin American activists used it as a platform to debate and denounce ideologies of racial harmony and mixture which many argued cloaked racism and impeded black mobilization. However, for many of the delegates engaging with black radical politics did not imply an absolute rejection of these ideas, but instead highlighted the varying ways in which Afro-Latin American activists understood and contested these concepts in the 1970s. Many Afro-Latin American delegates, even those who were openly critical of ideologies of racial harmony, called for multiracial forms of solidarity and expressed support for culturally mixed visions of the nation-state
Art · Harmony (color · Ideology · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Racial hierarchy · Racism · Sociology · Solidarity · Vision · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Religious studies
In the Cause of Freedom
The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia
Myths of Harmony
Becoming Black Political Subjects
Erecting and Erasing Boundaries
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
The Age of Garvey
Black Power beyond Borders
Café con leche
Uneven Encounters
Movilidad social e identidad “negra” en la segunda mitad del siglo XX
The Geographies of Social Movements
The Racial Composition of the Population of Colombia
Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America
Unity Is Strength”
Black and Green
Black knowledge on the move
Hotel Trópico
Brazilian Racial Democracy, 1900-90
Disenchanted with the state
A Nation for All
Our Rightful Share
Slave and Citizen. The Negro in the Americas
La política cultural de la negritud en Latinoamérica
Terms of Inclusion
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |