Graduation Year
2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Degree Granting Department
Government
Major Professor
Bernd Reiter, Ph.D.
Co-Major Professor
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Harry Vanden, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Tanya Kateri Hernandez, Ph.D.
Keywords
Afrodescendants, Blackness in Peru, Durban, Ethnoracial law
Abstract
The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and related intolerance celebrated in the city of Durban in 2001 was not the first international forum addressing the topic of racism in different countries of the world. However, it marked a pivotal before and after in the arena of racial politics in some countries of Latin America. With a special focus on indigenous communities and peoples of African descent, this international platform brought together governments, civil society organizations, and stakeholders alike urging them to recognize the pervasiveness of racism and racial discrimination in their countries. In the specific case of Peru, the Conference was followed by the creation of a number of national institutions for the advancement of Afrodescendants and other ethnic minorities, and the integration of the existing legislation on racism and discrimination. This work seeks to analyze the political shift experienced by Afrodescendants in Peru that took them from an unrecognized demographic group to a racial minority protected by the law and with an affirmed political subjectivity.
Scholar Commons Citation
Cotito, Mariela Noles, "From Black Invisibility to Afroperuvian Citizenship The Building Process of Black Political Subjectivity in Peru" (2018). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/7670
