Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the impact of racial anti-discrimination law in Venezuela. Its shows how the preventive frame of the Organic Law against Racial Discrimination and its implementation by the National Institute against Racial Discrimination has limited capacities to identify, prosecute, and eradicate, structural and everyday forms of racism in Venezuela. By examining the Cine Citta case–prompted after the establishment published a digital job advertisement on the Internet that explicitly requested employees with ‘white skin’ – this paper reveals the unexpected role of social media actors for activating anti-racist legal mechanisms. It argues that digital media users can effectively contribute to the typification of cases of racial discrimination and in turn exert public pressure on state institutions to sanction racism. Although these actions were temporary, the relative anonymity of social media users allowed them to evoke the symbolic power of anti-discrimination laws and to create a diverse and contingent anti-racist digital community. This paper contributes to regional debates on alternative modalities for implementing racial anti-discrimination legislations within multicultural states.
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