{"id":38989,"date":"2014-12-19T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38989"},"modified":"2017-04-13T22:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:11:27","slug":"defining-blackness-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38989","title":{"rendered":"Defining Blackness in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jsa.revues.org\/10783\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Defining Blackness in Colombia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jsa.revues.org\" target=\"_blank\">Journal de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Am\u00e9ricanistes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"%20http:\/\/jsa.revues.org\/10715\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 95, Number 1<\/a> (2009)<br \/>\npages 165-184 (46 paragraphs)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/personalpages.manchester.ac.uk\/staff\/peter.wade\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peter Wade<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Social Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Manchester, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombia\" target=\"_blank\">Colombia<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>The ambiguity of blackness<\/li>\n<li>The emergence of black identity and huellas de african\u00eda<\/li>\n<li>Constitutional reform and la comunidad negra<\/li>\n<li>The hegemony of \u00ab afro \u00bb<\/li>\n<li>Blackness and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\"><em>mestizaje<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/jsa.revues.org\/10783\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,8,394],"tags":[1865,7572,1864],"class_list":["post-38989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-colombia","tag-journal-de-la-societe-des-americanistes","tag-peter-wade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53494,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38989\/revisions\/53494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}