Racism and nation

Seminar 2303

Chair: CLACSO

Coordination: Santiago Arboleda Quiñónez (Andean University Simón Bolívar, Ecuador).

Visiting Professor: Gabriela González Ortuño (National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM)

Start: 23/03/2023 | Registration: 19/12/2022 to 22/03/2023

Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.

PRESENTATION OF THE COURSE

The nation-state in Latin America that emerged after the wars of independence has as its foundational matrix the continuation of a set of colonial institutions. Of all these structures, the one that brings us together for this seminar is “race.” This social construct, which emerged in the heat of European conquest and colonization in our world, is what legitimizes the hierarchical ranking of some subjects over others. This ideological taxonomy based on the body (pigment, phenotype) has naturalized permanent social roles to favor the privileged.

Racism, therefore, is a system with economic, political, cultural, erotic, and sexual manifestations, in which miscegenation acts as a mediator/cover-up for intentionally constructed privileged lineages. This seminar invites participants to study nation-building and the myth of miscegenation, critiquing its colonial matrix and proposing a conception of miscegenation as it actually exists: through creolization or “historical interculturality” to deconstruct the egalitarian myth and propose a truly deracializing horizon.

Racism, modernity and coloniality
National formations of otherness, race, and blackness
Race in its collapse with gender, class, and sexuality
Black and Afro-diasporic intelligentsia: From what perspectives to analyze?
Questions about Creole-Mestizo Republicanism: by Candelario Obeso, Manuel Zapata Olivella and Nicomedes Santacruz
Pan-Africanism: The Congresses of Black Culture of the Americas
Baroque modernity and a critique of (de)coloniality
Édouard Glissant: The Caribbean as episteme
Non-Afro-descendant Blackness
Multiculturalism, the elimination of Afro-descendants, and unquestionable whiteness
Eugenic nationalisms and pending anti-racial historical justice
The largest genocide of people of African descent in the Americas

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arboleda Quiñonez, Santiago (2016). Plan Colombia: Decivilization, genocide, ethnocide and Afro-Colombian exile. Nómadas Magazine No. 45. Central University, Bogotá.
Arboleda Quiñonez, Santiago (2016).New stars have blossomed in the sky: Intimate self-sufficiency and the clandestine nature of Afro-Colombian thoughtCali: Poemia Publishing House.
Arboleda Quiñonez, Santiago (2017). Bicentennial of what? Images of the Afro-Colombian in the national project: Candelario Obeso. In. Decolonizing worlds: Contributions of Black intellectuals to Colombian social thought, Buenos Aires: CLACSO. pp. 176-186
Arboleda Quiñonez, Santiago (2017). The constitution of Afro-Peruvian thought. An approach to the intellectual formation and artistic and essayistic production of Nicomedes Santa Cruz (1958-1991). In: Revista Historia y Espacio Vol. 13 No. 48. Universidad del Valle. pp. 245-276
Arboleda Quiñonez, Santiago (2019). Routes to outline the Afro-Colombian ecogenoethnocide: towards a conceptualization from historical justice. Nómadas Magazine No. 50. Central University, Bogotá.
Colombia: the largest genocide in the Americas (In press)
Davis, Angela (2007). “The Legacy of Slavery: Models for a New Femininity” and “Domestic Work Comes to an End: A Class Perspective” In: Women, race and class. Akal: Spain, pp. 11- 37 and 221- 239.
Echeverría, Bolívar. (2010). Modernity and whitenessMexico: ERA Editions.
Fanon, Frantz. (2009). Black skin, white masksSpain: Akal.
Glissant Édouard. (2017) The poetics of the relationshipArgentina: University of Quilmes.
González, Lelia (1980). “Racism and sexism in Brazilian culture” in Topics and black population in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, IV Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences, s/p.
Mbembe Achille. (2016) Critique of black reasonSpain: Future Past.
Quijano, Aníbal. (2014) Issues and horizons: from historical-structural dependency to the coloniality/decoloniality of powerAutonomous City of Buenos Aires: CLACSO.
Ratier, Hugo. (1975). The little black headArgentina: Latin American Publishing Center.
Segato, Rita Laura. (2007). The Nation and Its Others: Race, Ethnicity, and Religious Diversity in times of Identity PoliticsBuenos Aires: Prometeo Libros.

PAYMENT METHODS

Payment method

	Discount for one payment until 13/03	In one payment after 13/03
CM Plenos	$75	$150
CM Associates	$95	$190
No link	$95	$190

FAQ

What do I need to take a CLACSO virtual seminar?

The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:

Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
Internet access.
Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages are Spanish and Portuguese.

What is the length of a CLACSO virtual seminar? What is the total number of hours?

The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. A total of 90 hours of dedication will be credited.

What is the work modality and dynamics?

A course consists of twelve classes, each accompanied by required readings, supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is delivered online and asynchronously. Some instructors may propose synchronous activities. In these cases, the time and date will be agreed upon in advance between the teaching team and the students to ensure everyone's participation. To pass the seminar, students must participate in at least 80% of the discussion forums and activities proposed by the instructors, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.