• DOI:10.1080/0950238042000260405
• Corpus ID: 141930215

Ethnicization of blackness in Colombia

@article{Restrepo2004EthnicizationOB,
  title={Ethnicization of blackness in Colombia},
  author={Eduardo Restrepo},
  journal={Cultural Studies},
  year={2004},
  volume={18},
  pages={698 - 753}
}

• Eduardo Restrepo
• Published 1 September 2004
• Sociology
• Cultural Studies

This paper is an ethnography of the articulation of ethnicity in the politics of blackness in Colombia. Based. on the author's fieldwork in the southern Pacific region over the last 10 years, the paper briefly describe the ethnicization of blackness in Colombia and shows how this process implies a particular articulation of memories and identities in the politics of representation of alterity. The ethnicization of blackness involves a specific ‘imagined. (black) community’ both within and beyond the nation. The specificity of this imagined. black community is anchored. in the objectification of memory, culture, nature and identity. Therefore, it is argued. that the ethnicization of blackness is not a new euphemism for race, but that to understand the particular inscriptions of blackness as an ethnic group one has to problematize the ‘racial closure’ assumed. by most scholars in the study of blackness.