Revista de Estudios Sociales

rev. estud. soc. | eISSN 1900-5180 | ISSN 0123-885X

Escaping Racialized (Sexual) Stereotypes: The Case of Middle-Class Afro-Descendants in Bogota

No. 49 (2014-05-01)
  • Klára Hellebrandová
https://doi.org/10.7440/res49.2014.07

Abstract

This article seeks to identify the different stereotypes and mechanisms of the process of racialization, sexualized racism and racialized sexism. At the same time, through the analysis of interviews of Afro-Colombian middle-class men and women in Bogota, I analyze the relation between “being a black woman” and “being perceived as a ‘black woman’” and “being a black man” and “being perceived as a ‘black man’” through challenging racial, gendered and classed boundaries, considering their intersections and showing ‘black’ persons primarily as agents, and not only as victims, that can contribute to both the transformation and the reproduction of racialization processes.

Keywords: Intersectionality, race, gender, racialization, stereotypes, coloniality of power

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