Anti-Black Racism in Latin America

Esther Pineda G

doi:10.1344/acs2021.12.9

Abstract

This article address the racialization phenomenon of the African population and their descendants, born in America from a socio-historical perspective; including: their kidnapping, transfer and slavery in the American continent during the colonial period. Also the article address the construction of imaginaries and narratives that allowed their exploitation, favored rejection and resistance to the abolition of slavery, and excluded the black population from the process of construction of the emerging Latin American Nation-States. The research investigates the role of Latin American blacks in the independence processes and problematizes the phenomenon of structural racism from a critical sociological perspective, as a factor for the physical and symbolic annihilation of the black and Afro-descendant population in the past and in Latin America today.

Highlights

The research investigates the role of Latin American blacks in the independence processes and problematizes the phenomenon of structural racism from a critical sociological perspective, as a factor for the physical and symbolic annihilation of the black and Afro-descendant population in the past and in Latin America today
The violent colonization of the Americas constituted the beginning of a racialization process that affected native populations, who were massacred in response to their resistance to the conquest, as well as individuals of African descent, whose dehumanization allowed for justification of their seizing, relocation, commercialization, and enslavement
In an effort to whiten the image of the emergent Latin American nation-State, they were erased from the historical narrative

Summary

Historia editorial Abstract

This article address the racialization phenomenon of the African population and their descendants, born in America from a socio-historical perspective; including: their kidnapping, transfer and slavery in the American continent during the colonial period. The research investigates the role of Latin American blacks in the independence processes and problematizes the phenomenon of structural racism from a critical sociological perspective, as a factor for the physical and symbolic annihilation of the black and Afro-descendant population in the past and in Latin America today. La investigación indaga en el rol de los negros latinoamericanos en los procesos independentistas y problematiza el fenómeno del racismo estructural desde una perspectiva sociológica crítica, como factor para el aniquilamiento físico y simbólico de la población negra y afrodescendiente en el pasado y en la América Latina actual.

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