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 on s...

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Main Author: Álvaro Villegas Vélez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2014-01-01
Series:Universitas Humanística
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Online Access:http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/univhumanistica/article/view/5931/6421
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description 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 on standardization 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 population differences; 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 racial otherness and the past; 8) Finally, the article presents and outline of some unexplored investigative possibilities.
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spelling doaj.art-11d8fa0a7a5e4d8ab7615618f12d68582022-12-21T23:23:48ZengPontificia Universidad JaverianaUniversitas Humanística0120-48072011-27342014-01-01777730532510.11144/Javeriana.UH77.arcnRacial Otherness and National Construction: a Report of the Studies on the Relationship Between Race and Nation in ColombiaÁlvaro Villegas Vélez 0Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, ColombiaThis 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 on standardization 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 population differences; 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 racial otherness and the past; 8) Finally, the article presents and outline of some unexplored investigative possibilities.http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/univhumanistica/article/view/5931/6421National BuildingRacial OthernessState of the ArtColombia
spellingShingle Álvaro Villegas Vélez
Racial Otherness and National Construction: a Report of the Studies on the Relationship Between Race and Nation in Colombia
Universitas Humanística
National Building
Racial Otherness
State of the Art
Colombia
title Racial Otherness and National Construction: a Report of the Studies on the Relationship Between Race and Nation in Colombia
title_full Racial Otherness and National Construction: a Report of the Studies on the Relationship Between Race and Nation in Colombia
title_fullStr Racial Otherness and National Construction: a Report of the Studies on the Relationship Between Race and Nation in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Racial Otherness and National Construction: a Report of the Studies on the Relationship Between Race and Nation in Colombia
title_short Racial Otherness and National Construction: a Report of the Studies on the Relationship Between Race and Nation in Colombia
title_sort racial otherness and national construction a report of the studies on the relationship between race and nation in colombia
topic National Building
Racial Otherness
State of the Art
Colombia
url http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/univhumanistica/article/view/5931/6421
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