Send article
i

Meridional. Chilean Journal of Latin American Studies is pleased to invite you to participate in the dossier “Relevance of Latin American Marxism: Thinking from, with, and beyond Michael Löwy’s work”, which consists in our 21st volume, to be published in October 2023. 

Intellectuality, race and gender: women in afro-resistance from the Azapa and Arica valley, Chile

Authors

  • Nicole Chávez González Universidad Alberto Hurtado
No. 16 (2021): April-september. Dossier: "Afro-Descendant Intellectuals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Figures, Discourses and Spaces of Circulation"
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61365

Abstract

This article provides a general anthropological vision of the “Afro-Chilean” community in the north of the country, a people that has been altered by multiple historical processes that had an impact on their ways of inhabiting the territory. First, and through bibliographic reviews, a brief review of the historical context is made: slavery, the formation of nation-states, the Pacific War and the subsequent Chileanization process, until the early 2000s, when the Afro-Chilean movement was reborn in Arica and the Azapa valley, Chile. Then, thanks to ethnographic experience and field work, the intellectual roles of women and their racial ascription in society are vindicated and valued, through different roles that they embody in pursuit of the reconstruction and resistance of the Afro-Chilean identity, from different spaces: political struggles, knowledge and traditions transfer, intellectual productions, among others. Finally, the social, cultural, economic, and political relevance that they have within the persistence, ethnogenesis and self-recognition of their community is upheld from the intellectually.

Keywords:

Afro-Chilean women, Afro-intellectuals, gender, Arica and the Azapa Valley

Downloads

Altmetrics
How to Cite
Chávez González, N. (2021). Intellectuality, race and gender: women in afro-resistance from the Azapa and Arica valley, Chile. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (16). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61365
ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver
Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX
 
Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
Universidad de Chile
DATOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN
Dirección de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas (SISIB)