Ideología racial, práctica social y Estado Liberal en Costa Rica

Introducción Hace unos años escuchamos a un amigo describir a una afrolimonense conocida suya de esta manera: “¡Que mujerzota, maje! Tiene el cuerpo de una negra y la cara de una blanca.” Tal comentario, de ninguna manera fuera de contexto en los entornos sociales capitalinos, pone en manifiesto la continua vitalidad de dos jerarquías que confieren autoridad de una manera tan arraigada, que casi pasa desapercibida.  El sujeto, masculino y blanco, nunca duda de tener el derecho de calificar al objeto (femenino o negro). El comentario nos recordó la anécdota autobiográfica de Frantz Fanon…

Mujeres negras (sirvientas, putas, matronas): una aproximación a la mujer negra de Colombia

This text questions what it means to be black women in the context of inequity and the multiple forms of violence suffered in Colombian society. It argues that the analysis on black women situation, gender categories are insufficient. Instead, it declares as necessary an analysis that also articulates categories such as ethnicity / race, class, and sexual orientation, questioning these categories while at the same time giving new significance from the specific experiences of women and black communities are given. The text places in tension a universalistic view of feminism and the traditional left. It also explores the reasons for the poverty of the black population especially in the Colombian Pacific region, the institutional emergence of women´s organizations in the same region an examines the "ethnization" of Pacific communities in the context of regulation of article 55 of the Constitution of 1991. Finally, the article ends by showing how oppression has many faces for the black population, especially for black women.