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the cultural politics of blackness in Colombia
Author(s) -
WADE PETER
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1995.22.2.02a00070
Subject(s) - solidarity , politics , invisibility , deconstruction (building) , ethnic group , sociology , gender studies , mobilization , political mobilization , identity politics , political science , aesthetics , political economy , anthropology , law , philosophy , ecology , physics , optics , biology
Recent political mobilization by blacks in Colombia challenges notions about the “invisibility” of blackness there and the structural difficulties of political mobilization. It also raises issues about the analysis of cultural politics and the deconstruction of cultural “inventions” without thereby invalidating them as a locus of ethnic solidarity. [cultural invention, identity, black culture, politics, Colombia]