Rosero-Labbé,Claudia Mosquera (Editor) and Díaz,Ruby Esther León (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
832 p., Contains the main findings of research conducted between 2006 and 2008 entitled "affirmative action for blacks, Afro-Colombians, native islanders and palenqueros: a step towards ethnic-racial black reparative justice?"
The sexualisation of racially subordinated people has been linked to the exercise of power. This article focuses on an aspect of subordination related to the condition of being a servant, and the ‘domestication’ and ‘acculturation’ that domestic service implies in societies where black and indigenous people are often linked to ‘backwardness’. Perceived racial otherness, class subordination, gender, age and domesticated servitude together reinforce an erotic image of sexual availability, particularly in younger women.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
247 p, Argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia's Pacific lowlands, or Chocó region, in the 1990s.
