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Esclavitud Perpetua: Construyendo Una Perspectiva De Raza En El Derecho Constitucional Colombiano, Jorge Gonzalez-Jacome

Jorge Gonzalez-Jacome

The racial element in our society has been generally invisible to many of us. While slavery has been abolished, the process of making black people invisible has been effective. Two recent judgements of the Colombian Constitutional Court have made us think of the race problem as something meaningful in our society. Many difficulties arise in these judgements, and this article presents a critique to some of the legal arguments and consequences of them. It also sustains that the Court has still a long way to go in order to make the racial problem a visible one in our present state …