Abstract

HELLEBRANDOVA, Klára. The process of Ethno-Racialization and Resistance in the Multicultural Age: Being Black in Bogota. univ.humanist. [online]. 2014, n.77, pp.145-168. ISSN 0120-4807.

This article is about the process of ethno-racialization in the multicultural era specifically in the context of Colombia nowadays. A wide comprehensive theoretical framework is taken as the basis (racialization, structural racism, multiculturalism, intersectionality, everyday racism). The analysis of primary sources and in-depth interviews to young African descents from Bogotá are used to argue that multiculturalism, as it has been developed on a legislative level and in the colombian public policies, is not a challenge for the racialized foundations of power and social relations and that there is a variety of mechanisms that seek to defend the privileges of the white-mestizo. However and simultaneously, we suggest that multiculturalism provides a number of opportunities to question the racialized social and political system and to develop strategies of resistance.

Keywords : Ethno-racialization; Structural Racism; Everyday Racism; Resistance; Multiculturalism; Ethnicity; Black-Racial Identity; Multiculturalism; Cultural Identity; Race Discrimination; Bogotá (Colombia).

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