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Inclusion of Afro-Colombians: Unreachable National Goal?

Arocha, Jaime·1998·Latin American Perspectives
DOI 10.1177/0094582x9802500304
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Since July 4, 1991, a new constitution has allowed Colombians to exercise their citizenship by displaying cultural diversity rather than by concealing it as required by the previous political charter. Paradoxically, invisibility continues not only to impede full ethnic inclusion of Afro-Colombians but to aggravate ethnic asymmetries that, in turn, erode nonviolent coexistence among the black and Indian people who have shared portions of the Baud6 River valley (Department of Choco) for at least 150 years. Until the late 1980s, integration was the main strategy for achieving national unity in Latin America. It was argued that, by comparison with models based on state-enforced racial segregation such as the one applied earlier in the U.S. South, it resulted in more interethnic tolerance (De Carvalho, Doria, and Oliveira, 1995; de la Fuente, 1996; Harris et al., 1993). Nonetheless, after the 1960s, Indian and Afro-American political movements began to point out that amalgamation had resulted in the cultural annihilation of ethnic minorities and significant losses of ancestral territories. In response, countries such as Brazil and Nicaragua approved constitutions that legitimated ethnic diversity and its consequent territorial and political rights (Arocha, 1989). In Colombia, Indians and Afro-Colombians took part directly or indirectly in a National Constitutional Assembly that, in 1991, eliminated assimilationism.

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Authors
Arocha, J.
Venue
Latin American Perspectives
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1998-05
Volume
25
Issue
3
Pages
70-89
ISSN
  • 0094-582X (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-678X
DOI
10.1177/0094582x9802500304
OpenAlex
W2088586542
Semantic Scholar
3fd44f3c78dbef31b1cf54f00451b4e10a540c1b
Cited by
95
References
14
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FWCI
27.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Latin American Perspectives (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Afro-Latin American Studies
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Indigenous Studies in Latin America
  • Social Sciences › Demography › History and Politics in Latin America
Keywords
Afro-Colombians, ethnic inclusion, Chocó, Colombian Constitution of 1991, assimilationism, ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, cultural diversity, territorial rights

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