{"id":48122,"date":"2016-07-07T01:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T01:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48122"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:36:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:36:53","slug":"la-esclava-blanca-the-new-telenovela-rewriting-colombias-history-of-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48122","title":{"rendered":"La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia\u2019s History of Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

La Esclava Blanca<\/strong>: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia\u2019s History of Slavery<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society<\/a>
\n2016-07-06<\/p>\n

Yesenia Barragan<\/strong><\/a>
\nColumbia University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan<\/a>, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and the Atlantic\/Pacific worlds. She recently received her Ph.D. in Latin American and Caribbean History at Columbia University and will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College in the Fall 2016. She is currently revising her book manuscript, tentatively titled <\/em>The Darkest Place: Slavery and Emancipation on the Colombian Pacific, which is the first detailed study of the gradual abolition of slavery (1821-1852) and the immediate aftermath of emancipation in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia<\/a>. Yesenia is also a longtime activist and has published several pieces for the Latin American news agency <\/em>Telesur on the historical memory of slavery in the Americas, Black Lives Matter, and Colombian politics.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Between Underground<\/em><\/a> and Roots<\/em><\/a>, the past year has witnessed a boom in the cinematic portrayal of the ugly business of and resistance to slavery in the U.S. South. Little known to American audiences, however, is the recent debut of a television series from the Latin American country of Colombia<\/a> titled La Esclava Blanca<\/em><\/a> (The White Slave<\/em>), which depicts the slaveholding world of post-colonial Colombia, currently the country with the third largest Afro-descendent population in the Western Hemisphere<\/a> (after the United States and Brazil). Produced by Caracol TV (Colombia\u2019s largest television network) and first aired in late January 2016 in Colombia, La Esclava Blanca<\/em> was transmitted to a larger Spanish-language audience in the United States via Telemundo<\/em> in April. In contrast to Brazil\u2019s longer history of telenovelas (soap operas) set during the time of slavery (see, for example, Greg Childs\u2019s AAIHS piece on A Escrava Isaura<\/em><\/a>), La Esclava Blanca<\/em> is actually the first telenovela about slavery in the history of Colombia. Yet, as reflected in the title of the telenovela (The White Slave<\/em>), the show engages in a violent historical revisionism by centering the fantastical travails of a white woman who ostensibly holds the key of freedom for the region\u2019s enslaved…<\/p>\n

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La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia\u2019s History of Slavery AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society 2016-07-06 Yesenia Barragan Columbia University, New York, New York This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and the Atlantic\/Pacific worlds. She recently received her Ph.D. in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,8413,459,8,6940,23674,25],"tags":[20798,20797,1865,24423],"class_list":["post-48122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-communications","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-social-justice","category-women","tag-aaihs","tag-african-american-intellectual-history-society","tag-colombia","tag-yesenia-barragan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48122","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=48122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48123,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48122\/revisions\/48123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}