Ethnicization of blackness in Colombia: Toward de-racializing theoretical and political imagination

Cultural Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 698-753

  Restrepo, Eduardo ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Blackness; Colombia lowlands; Ethnicization; Racial closure; Regimes of memory politics of subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 5444266010     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950238042000260405     Document Type: Article

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