Black People from Northern Cauca in Colombia

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n52.03

Carlos Alberto Benavides
Universidad Externado de Colombia
carlos.benavides@senado.gov.co

Alhena Caicedo
Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, ICANH 
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0700-0017
alhenauta@gmail.com

Abstract:

Over twenty years after multiculturalism was adopted as a Colombian State policy, differential legislation has confirmed Indigenous and Afro-Colombian people as the Others in this nation. Against this backdrop, we intend to examine norther Cauca’s Black People’s experience rooted in a given time frame and geography during the last century. Far from dealing with Blackness in general terms, this article aims to approach Black people’s lives from three perspectives: Inside, or the local and own perspective produced by this people’s daily life. Border: the historical experience of Blackness in the opposite way —as a difference produced in terms of segregation, racialization, and invisibilization. And the interspersed: as the singular experience in relation to others for joint building new horizons.

Keywords: northern Cauca, Blackness, Afro-Colombian people, “Others of the Nation-state”.