Racism and nation

Seminar 1961

Chair: CLACSO
Coordination: Santiago Arboleda Quiñónez (Andean University Simón Bolívar, Ecuador) and Saúl Hernández Rosales (National Higher Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru, Venezuela).
Guest lecturer: Albeley Rodríguez Bencomo (University of the Americas, Ecuador).

Home: 30 / 09 / 2019 | Registration: 04/02/2019 al 27/09/2019

Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.

Payment methods
If you have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you have a link with a Network or Institution Associated with CLACSO:

Paying in one payment: USD 140 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment BEFORE 17/09/2019: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
Paying in one payment: USD 190 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

Course presentation:

Considering “race” as a social construct that emerged during the conquest and colonization of our world, this seminar seeks to study the historically constructed legitimacy of the hierarchical ranking of some subjects over others. It understands that 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, and whose foundational matrix is the continuation of a set of colonial institutions. This seminar invites participants to study the construction of the nation 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.

Content:

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 of the Seminar

Quijano, Aníbal. (2014) Questions and horizons: from historical-structural dependency to the coloniality/decoloniality of power. Autonomous City of Buenos Aires: CLACSO.
Recommended selection: Prologue (pages 13-54) “Coloniality of Power and Social Classification” (pages 285-330) “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Latin America” (pages 777-832).
Fanon, Frantz. (2009). Black Skin, White Masks. Spain: Akal.
Segato, Rita Laura. (2007). The Nation and its Others: race, ethnicity and religious diversity in times of Identity Politics. Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros.
Davis, Angela (2007). “The legacy of slavery: models for a new femininity” and “Domestic work is coming to an end: a class perspective” In: Women, race and class. Akal: Spain, pp. 11-37 and 221-239.
González, Lelia (1980). “Racism and sexism in Brazilian culture” in Temas e populaçao negra no Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, IV Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences, s/p.
Arboleda Quiñonez, Santiago (2016). New stars have blossomed in the sky: Intimate sufficiencies and clandestinization of Afro-Colombian thought. Cali: Editorial Poemia.
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 (2016).New stars have blossomed in the sky: Intimate sufficiencies and clandestinization of Afro-Colombian thought. Cali: Editorial Poemia.
Recommended selection: Chapter 2 (pages 91-114) Chapter 3 (pages 115-134).
Echeverría, Bolívar. (2010). Modernity and whiteness. Mexico: ERA Editions.
Glissant Édouard. (2017) The Poetics of Relationship. Argentina: University of Quilmes.
Ratier, Hugo. (1975). The little black head. Argentina: Latin American Publishing Center.
Mbembe Achille. (2016) Critique of Black Reason. Spain: Futuro Anterior.
Arboleda Quiñonez, Santiago (2016). Plan Colombia: Decivilization, genocide, ethnocide and Afro-Colombian exile. Nómadas Magazine No. 45. Central University, Bogotá.
Arboleda Quiñonez, Santiago (2019). Routes to outline the Afro-Colombian ecogenoethnocide: towards a conceptualization from historical justice. Nómadas Magazine No. 50. Central University, Bogotá.

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Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
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The seminars last 12 weeks, plus the completion of a final project. A total of 90 hours of dedication will be credited.

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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.