La política del color: (des)andando los caminos de la afrodescendencia en/de la Argentina

Abstract

A más de dos décadas del avance que significó, en Durban, para los hasta entonces llamados negros autodenominarse afrodescendientes, parte de este colectivo de/en la Argentina continúa empleando el color que dio sentido primigenio para interpelar al Estado y visibilizarse, lo que llamo política del color. Vehiculizan sus demandas mostrándose del modo en que históricamente vienen siendo representados. El Estado también abunda en esta lógica pero para neutralizar o minimizar sus demandas. Mi hipótesis es que esto es contraproducente porque reduce todo a un colorismo anodino, lo que limita el Estado atenderlos satisfactoriamente

More than two decades after the advancement that meant, in Durban, the formerly referred to as blacks, to self-identify with the term Afro-descendants, part of this group of/in Argentina continues to use the color that provided the original meaning in order to address the State and make itself visible (which I designate the politics of color). This collective voices their de-mands through by portraying themselves in the way they had been represented historically. The State also delves into this logic abundantly but only to neutralize or minimize said de-mands. Our hypothesis is that this is counterproductive, as it reduces everything to a nonde-script picturesque which restricts the State from successfully addressing their issues.