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Raising Two Fists - Struggles for Black Citizenship in Multicultural Colombia (Paperback)
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Raising Two Fists - Struggles for Black Citizenship in Multicultural Colombia (Paperback)
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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 Cárdenas 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, Cárdenas
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.
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