Contribution of Amir Smith Córdoba to the Colombian black intellectual infrastructure in the 1970s: learning to be black with the newspaper Presencia Negra (1979)
During the 1970s, Amir Smith Córdoba founds the Center for Research on Black Culture (CIDCUN). This Center and its newspaper Presencia Negra were part of the what we call in this work “Black Intellectual Infrastructure”. The objective of this article is to explore, in the first issues of the newspaper Presencia Negra, the production of Smith Córdoba's normative / pedagogical project, which was developed both around a rhetoric of “must be black”, and through articles that also sought to “de-alienate” a certain sector of journalism, called by the author, following Césaire, “petty bourgeois”. In summary, it will seek to expose what this cognitive liberation or desalienation meant for Amir Smith Córdoba, and what resources he used to promote it.
Keywords:
Colombian Black Intellectual Infrastructure, Amir Smith Córdoba, blackness, CIDCUN, Presencia Negra
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Valero, S., & Delgado, R. (2021). Contribution of Amir Smith Córdoba to the Colombian black intellectual infrastructure in the 1970s: learning to be black with the newspaper Presencia Negra (1979). Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (16). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61361
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