The afrodescendant moviment and the racial-ethnic identity campaigns in Latin America and Caribbean

Abstract

The present paper is a diachronic study about the articulation process of Afro-descents organisations in Latin America and Caribbean for the inclusion of the categories “colour” and “race” in the national demographic census from 2005 to 2013. It takes into account the communications campaigns of auto definition, organised by Afro-descents institutions in Latin America and/or Caribbean and the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Equator, Honduras, Uruguay, Paraguay e Peru. The centre line of the paper is to identify the virtual platforms and the communicative mediations used by the abovementioned countries to boost these kind of campaigns. In order to meet the goal, a bibliographic searching was implemented, and also an observation of the participation in blogs and web pages of the social actors involved in the process.