SPACE, GENDER AND RACE: SPACE STRATEGIES OF AFRO-FEMALE RESISTANCE IN COLOMBIA
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This article exposes the spatial strategies of resistance developed by black women in Colombia to counteract the violence experienced in racialized, impoverished and segregated cities. Based on an ethnographic work carried out with different social leaders from the urban area of Buenaventura between 2018 and 2019, this article seeks to make visible the collective responses of black women to dignify their bodies, lives and territories. In this scenario, women, rather than passive victims, are active subjects capable of resignifying their encounters with the racist, sexist and capitalist hegemonic power that subdues them. In this way, the collective responses allow us to recognize and make visible the political place of black women in a society that denies them as subjects and considers third category citizens.
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