Racial Otherness and National Construction: a Report of the Studies on the Relationship Between Race and Nation in Colombia

This article evaluates, through eight main areas, the publications that make the relations between racial otherness and the Nation in Colombia problematic. These areas are: 1) Pioneer Articles (1989- 1994) which tende to reduce racial discourses to exclusively racist strategies, 2) Works focused ons...

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Autor Principal: Villegas Vélez, Álvaro; Actualmente profesor asistente del Departamento de Estudios Filosóficos y Culturales. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Colombia
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2014
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/univhumanistica/article/view/5931
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Sumario: This article evaluates, through eight main areas, the publications that make the relations between racial otherness and the Nation in Colombia problematic. These areas are: 1) Pioneer Articles (1989- 1994) which tende to reduce racial discourses to exclusively racist strategies, 2) Works focused onstandardization practices, 3) Publications focused on the political and intellectual debates about these practices, 4) Research on the interactions between race and Nation in the nineteenth century, 5 ) Publications dealing with the link between discursive and territorial practices about populationdifferences; 6) Research that has focused on the tension between the homogenization and differentiation project in national states, from a perspective attentive to the regional and local , 7) Works linking racialotherness and the past; 8) Finally, the article presents and outline of some unexplored investigative possibilities.