INCLUSION OF AFRO-COLOMBIANS: UNREACHABLE NATIONAL GOAL?

In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Band 25, Heft 100, S. 70-89

Abstract

THE NEW COLOMBIAN CONSTITUTION ATTEMPTS TO BUILD THE NATION NEITHER BY INTEGRATION NOR BY SEGREGATION BUT BY PURSUING UNITY THROUGH THE PRESERVATION OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THIS INNOVATION REQUIRES A RADICAL CHANGE IN THE WAY IN WHICH AFRO-COLOMBIANS ARE PERCEIVED. IT ALSO ARGUES THAT WITHOUT THIS CHANGE, ITS IMPLEMENTATION WILL BE A SOURCE OF NEW FRICTION BETWEEN INDIANS AND AFRO-COLOMBIANS.