Breaking the Boundaries of the Colombian Socio-Racial Order: Black Middle Classes through an Intersectional Lens

Mara Viveros-Vigoya

doi:10.5771/9781666919196

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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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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1918-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1919-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 210
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Figures No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
1. Colombia’s Elusive Socio-Racial Order No access
2. The Heterogeneity of the Category “Middle Class” No access
3. An Intersectional Approach to the Latin American Middle Classes No access
1. The Middle Layers of the Afro-Colombian Population No access
2. Upward Mobility, Whiteness, and Social Whitening in Colombia No access
1. Three Accounts of Social Mobility from an Intersectional and Regional Perspective No access
2. Women Teachers, Ethno-Educators, and Microentrepreneurs in the Formation‌‌‌‌, Reformation, and Transformation of the Black Middle Classes No access
3. Black Middle Classes in the Crises of Racial Democracy No access
Epilogue No access Pages 169 - 178
References No access Pages 179 - 200
Index No access Pages 201 - 208
About the Author No access Pages 209 - 210