Racism, ethnic-racial perspective and Afro-Argentine identity

In-person workshop #4

Coordination: Federico Pita (Argentina)

Day and hourMarch 22st – 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Classroom: To be defined

Location: Floreal Gorini Cultural Center of Cooperation

Workload: 4 hours long.

*Registration includes participation in the workshop's academic activities and the digital issuance of the certificate of attendance..

WORKSHOP PRESENTATION

Racism is an inherited ideological construct in Argentina, stemming from the racial identification, classification, and stratification instituted by Spanish colonization as axes of social organization, and still not remedied by the Republic.

It is expressed at three levels (structural, institutional and individual).

Structural racism, the interaction of policies and institutional practices that distribute advantages and disadvantages to different social groups (which accumulate from generation to generation), represents serious limits to democracy, to the full enjoyment of civil, political and human rights.

Historically accumulated disadvantages translate into economic, social and political inequalities (lack of political representation, wealth gap, access to land, housing, imprisonment, infant mortality, institutional violence, etc.), which are closely related to the ethnic-racial origin of the groups: the native and Afro-descendant populations are the most vulnerable groups.

OBJECTIVES

To enable participants to interpret, value and understand the social, cultural and political interest and its relevance, in the field of public affairs, of incorporating the ethnic-racial perspective.
Analyze the different levels at which racism operates (structural/systemic, institutional and individual) and its characteristics in the Argentine context (creole racism).
Introduce the attendees to the analytical tool of intersectionality.
To enable the participants to interpret, value and understand the social, cultural and political value of one of the fundamental roots of Argentinian identity: the Afro-Argentine community.
To dismantle the myth of the supposed "disappearance" of the Afro-Argentine population by analyzing its origins and its consequences in the present. Creole racism as an organizing concept.
A journey is proposed that explores the origins of the Afro-descendant presence in the formation of the Argentine national state.

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Carmichael, Stokely and Hamilton, Charles “White Power” Chapter 1 and “Black Power” Chapter 2 in Black Power, Ed. Siglo XXI. 1967.
• Quijano, Aníbal 2000 “Coloniality of power, Eurocentrism and Latin America” in Lander, Edgardo (comp.) The coloniality of knowledge: Eurocentrism and social sciences. Latin American perspectives. (Buenos Aires: CLACSO) p. 246.
• Pita, Federico “What do we talk about when we talk about racism?” in Inclusive, the INADI magazine No. 1 year 1. 2020.
• Pita, Federico “This is Creole racism” in Anfibia Magazine. 2020.

PAYMENT METHODS

Payment method

Payment due by 20/03

4.000 Argentine pesos

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Who are they aimed at?

The workshops are aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students; teachers at all levels; activists and members of trade unions, social movements and political parties; public officials; press workers; members and managers of non-governmental organizations and professionals interested in the topic.