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Black Politics Of Folklore: Expanding The Sites And Forms Of Politics In Colombia, Carlos Alberto Valderrama Pibe
Black Politics Of Folklore: Expanding The Sites And Forms Of Politics In Colombia, Carlos Alberto Valderrama Pibe
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This paper puts into question ideas of politics limited to the theories of social movements and contentious politics. In using the concept of black counterpublic, understood as a web of relations and spaces, I show how black politics of folklore expands the sites and forms of politics in Colombia of 1960. In doing so, I describe two aspects of the black counterpublic from the point of view of black political intellectuals into the racialized field of Colombian folklore: a. the way black political intellectuals understood race and racism in Colombia and, b. their forms of politics. That is, their form …