They “make” Afro-descendants “look like” criminals. Culture and Biopolitics through the Urban Space
This article focuses on the elucidation of the cultural and biopolitical mechanisms that act in the criminalization of Afro-descendants in areas of the city of Havana over the past three decades. This prejudice that leads to police intervention in the life of Afro- Cubans, is brought out in the fram...
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://relasp.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/97 |
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| Sumario: | This article focuses on the elucidation of the cultural and biopolitical mechanisms that act in the criminalization of Afro-descendants in areas of the city of Havana over the past three decades. This prejudice that leads to police intervention in the life of Afro- Cubans, is brought out in the framework of the symbolization of the imaginary of a unified nation, without racial contrasts, and of the continuum of a totalitarian State. Criminalization comes from a colonial root. It combines social control and culture. The first uses old colonial constructions of the social hierarchy. The second maintains those postcolonial forms between its naturalization and the onslaught of the fight for equality. |
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