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Breaking the Boundaries of the Colombian Socio-Racial Order
Black Middle Classes through an Intersectional Lens
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2023
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In Breaking the Boundaries of the Colombian Socio-Racial Order: Black Middle Classes through an Intersectional Lens, anthropologist and intersectional feminist Mara Viveros-Vigoya examines what it means to be Black and middle class in Colombia and how that meaning has been configured over almost a century of the country’s history. By applying an intersectional perspective, this book introduces two important theoretical shifts. First, it challenges the perception of Afrodescendant ‘communities’ as uniformly impoverished and second, it emphasizes the interconnectedness of class with geographical and historical contexts and with axes of social inequality such as gender, race, and age. Viveros-Vigoya argues that since the inauguration of neoliberal multiculturalism in the 1990s, while Blackness and upward social mobility have become more compatible, it remains to be seen whether we are advancing towards a global agenda of social justice or if we are simply opening some spaces for social and political mobility that serve largely to reproduce the status quo in the name of racial equality.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1918-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1919-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
210
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Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Colombia’s Elusive Socio-Racial Order No access
The Heterogeneity of the Category “Middle Class” No access
An Intersectional Approach to the Latin American Middle Classes No access
The Middle Layers of the Afro-Colombian Population No access
Upward Mobility, Whiteness, and Social Whitening in Colombia No access
Three Accounts of Social Mobility from an Intersectional and Regional Perspective No access
Women Teachers, Ethno-Educators, and Microentrepreneurs in the Formation, Reformation, and Transformation of the Black Middle Classes No access
Black Middle Classes in the Crises of Racial Democracy No access
