{"id":51054,"date":"2017-01-06T02:22:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51054"},"modified":"2017-01-06T02:22:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:22:51","slug":"the-beautiful-faces-of-my-black-people-race-ethnicity-and-the-politics-of-colombias-2005-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51054","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Beautiful Faces of my Black People\u2019: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia&#8217;s 2005 census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2013.791398\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018The Beautiful Faces of my Black People\u2019: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia&#8217;s 2005 census<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/current\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/36\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 36, 2013 &#8211; Issue 10: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America<\/a><br \/>\nPages 1544-1563<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2013.791398\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2013.791398<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiannapaschel.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tianna S. Paschel<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of African American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The recent multicultural turn in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\">Latin America<\/a> has made the census a key site of struggle for both recognition and resources. Drawing on document analysis and ethnographic methods, this paper examines the politics around <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombia\" target=\"_blank\">Colombia&#8217;s<\/a> 2005 census. I argue that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Colombians\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Colombian <\/a>organizations were successful in pressuring the state to move beyond the purely cultural notions of blackness institutionalized in the 1991 constitution and toward a broader ethno-racial Afro-Colombian category in the 2005 census. However, their success required them not only to situate their claims in international mandates and domestic law, but also to grapple with competing definitions of blackness within the movement itself. In this way, the Afro-Colombian movement has been an important actor in shaping how \u2018official\u2019 ethno-racial categories are made and remade in Colombia. This case not only sheds light on the politics of multiculturalism in Latin America more generally, but raises questions about how we understand \u2018race\u2019 versus \u2018ethnicity\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiannapaschel.com\/uploads\/ERS_paschel_-_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Beautiful Faces of my Black People\u2019: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia&#8217;s 2005 census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, 2013 &#8211; Issue 10: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America Pages 1544-1563 DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2013.791398 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley The recent multicultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,33,8,26,394],"tags":[25918,1865,461,10881,10880],"class_list":["post-51054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-afro-colombians","tag-colombia","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-tianna-paschel","tag-tianna-s-paschel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51054","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=51054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51055,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51054\/revisions\/51055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}