Raising Two Fists: Struggles for Black Citizenship in Multicultural Colombia

Name: Raising Two Fists: Struggles for Black Citizenship in Multicultural Colombia
Brand: Stanford University Press
Author: Roosbelinda Cárdenas
ISBN: 9781503635807

by Roosbelinda Cárdenas

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Raising Two Fists is a historically grounded ethnography of Afro-Colombian political mobilization after the multicultural turn that swept Latin America in the 1990s, when states began to recognize and legally enshrine rights for Afro-descendants. Roosbelinda C rdenas explores three major strategies that Afro-Colombians' developed in their struggles against racialized dispossession--the defense of culturally specific livelihoods through the creation of Black Territories; the demand for differential reparations for Afro-Colombian war victims; and the fight for inclusion in Colombia's peace negotiations and post-conflict rebuilding--illustrating how they engage in this work both as participants of organized political movements and in their everyday lives. Although rights-based claims to the state have become necessary and pragmatic tools in the intersecting struggles for racial, economic, and social justice, C rdenas argues that they continue to be ineffective due to Colombia's entrenched colonial racial hierarchies. She shows that while Afro-Colombians pursue rights-based claims, they also forge African Diasporic solidarities and protect the flourishing of their lives outside of the frame of rights, and with or without the state's sanction--a "two-fisted" strategy for Black citizenship.